15 May, 2015
2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the death penalty. According to reports Tsarnaev showed little emotion as the jury unanimously sentenced the terrorist to the death penalty. Tsarnaev was convicted last month on all 30 federal charges against him, including use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of an MIT police officer during the Tsarnaev brothers' getaway attempt. Seventeen of the 30 charges held against him had the possibility of the death penalty. At the end of the trial the judge ruled Tsarnaev to custody of U.S. Marshalls. According to reports it will likely be at least another couple of months before Tsarnaev faces lethal injection.
Victims of the 2013 bombing include; Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China, Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, 8-year-old Martin Richard, who had gone to watch the marathon with his family and Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier was shot to death in his cruiser days later during the getaway attempt by the Tsarnaev Brothers. 17 people lost legs in the bombings.
