In 2013 , Schumer said the death penalty would be “ appropriate ” in the case of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , the perpetrator of the Boston Marathon bombing . “ The federal law allows the death penalty , ” “ I wrote the law in 1994 when I was head of the crime subcommittee in the House . This is just the kind of case that it should be applied to "
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Chuck Schumer