The U.S. Department of Justice wants the Boston Marathon bomber dead.
The department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Dzhokar Tsarnaev, calling the Boston Marathon Bombings "one of the worst" acts of terrorism in the United States since 9/11, as NBC Boston reports.
She will run for governor of Massachusetts. The 49-year-old Democrat is a political science professor at Harvard University, as WCVB reports. She hopes to be the first black woman governor in Massachusetts history. Allen is one of two Democrats to announce thus far. The other is former state Senator Ben Downing (D-Pittsfield), who announced back in February.
