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| Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death |
| By theguardian.com- Nicky Woolf |
| Published: 05/18/2015 |
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bomb attack on the Boston Marathon – an attack that killed three people, left more than 260 wounded and stunned the country. In April, the same jury at a federal court in Boston found Tsarnaev guilty on 30 charges relating to the attack. Seventeen of those counts carried a possible death sentence, and despite hearing mitigating evidence from family members – and others such as Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun who opposes the death penalty – the jury voted unanimously to send 21-year-old Tsarnaev to his death. Tsarnaev will remain in the custody of the US marshals service until the sentencing hearing, at which he will have – if he so chooses – the opportunity to speak. That date has not been set yet, but he will not be handed over to the department of corrections until then. Read More. |
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