It could be years before convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is brought to the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute to be executed.
Tsarnaev was moved earlier this week to a maximum security penitentiary in Colorado.
If Tsarnaev’s death penalty is carried out, he will eventually come to Terre Haute, which is home to the only federal prison that conducts executions.
There’s little or no indication, however, of when Tsarnaev could be brought to Indiana, says Indiana State University criminologist Mark Hamm.
"There are many years to go of federal appeals before this guy would ever be executed," Hamm says
Hamm says in the time it takes to make those appeals, the nation’s sentiments toward capital punishment could change drastically and the death penalty at the federal level could even be abolished.
