UPDATE: *BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER TSARNAEV SENTENCED TO DEATH
Just over 2 years after the devastating explosions that killed and maimed many during The Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is about to face his penalty. The jury of seven women and five men convicted Mr. Tsarnaev, 21, last month of all 30 charges against him, including 17 counts that carry the death penalty. After 14.5 hours of deliberation, the jury will announce at 3pmET whether he will face death or life in prison.
A death sentence would be the first for a federal jury of a terrorist in the post 9/11 era, according to Kevin McNally, director of the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of capital punishment cases. The last terrorist sentenced to death was Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, who was convicted and sentenced in 1997 and executed by lethal injection in 2001.
The alternative is sending Mr. Tsarnaev to prison for the rest of his life with no chance of release, where he would join other terrorists on so-called Bomber’s Row at the federal supermax prison in Colorado.
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Lead prosecutor returns to court. Verdict to be announced shortly #Tsarnaev [8] pic.twitter.com/6jPG7TNK7y [9]
— Bob Murdock (@FOX25photog) May 15, 2015 [10]
People near finish line keep asking what sentencing verdict is as they walk by. @fox25news [11] carrying live. pic.twitter.com/HpN2vcgfaJ [12]
— Robert Goulston (@rgoulston) May 15, 2015 [13]
