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'Death Penalty!': President Trump Again Weighs In On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Decision

BOSTON (CBS) – President Donald Trump weighed in again on a federal appeals court's decision to overturn the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Early Sunday morning, Trump tweeted a news article about the decision, which was announced Friday, called for Tsarnaev to receive the death penalty.

Friday a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ordered a new penalty-phase trial on whether Tsarnaev should be executed.

Shortly after the ruling was announced, Trump called the decision "ridiculous."

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