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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death
By theguardian.com- Nicky Woolf
Published: 05/18/2015

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.

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