Boston Marathon bomber defendant, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for involvement in an attack in April 2013 that killed three people and injured 264 others, US federal jury decided the death penalty against Tsarnaev with lethal injections.
The verdict was decided by a jury in US federal court on Friday (15/05) local time. Tsarnaev no emotion during the trial. When the verdict was read, he bowed his head.
The outcome was a victory for prosecutors, who said the former college student worked in tandem with his older brother and carried out the attack in a “heinous, cruel and depraved manner.” Jurors rejected arguments that Tsarnaev had fallen under the sway of his brother, Tamerlan, and was remorseful over the suffering he caused.
Tsarnaev will be transferred to a federal prison, where he will remain until he is put to death by lethal injection. His attorneys did not comment after the verdict, but they are expected to appeal the sentence.
After the verdict, Karen Brassard, who was wounded in the attack, said there was “nothing happy about having to take someone’s life.” But she called the outcome “a just conclusion.”
“Right now, it feels like we can take a breath and breathe again,” she said.
Tsarnaev will become the 62nd federal inmate on death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. But it has been more than a decade since the federal government executed an inmate, and the Obama administration is reviewing its protocol for carrying out the death penalty after a botched Oklahoma state execution last year.
But the Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., decided last year to seek the death penalty in Tsarnaev’s case. After Friday’s verdict was read, Holder’s successor, Loretta E. Lynch, issued a statement calling the sentence “the ultimate penalty” and “a fitting punishment for this horrific crime.”
For 10 weeks, the jury heard testimony from 150 people, including people whose legs were amputated because of the bomb. The public prosecutor called the Tsarnaev as one of the followers of Al Qaeda to fight against the US.
Tsarnaev legal counsel said his clients admit the allegations associated bomb Boston. However, he stressed that what was done Tsarnaev because follow what was done by his brother, Tamerlan, who was shot dead by police.
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