Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the getaway attempt. Prosecutors said the brothers carried out the attack to punish the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries.

Joe Biden’s position on the death penalty has gone from Abolition to Wait to Sometimes to Go for It to Abolition, Actually, Except for a Few. The death penalty is not the hot-button political issue it was during the 1980s and ’90s,