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05-15-2015, 03:03 PM
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BOSTON – DEVELOPING: A federal jury Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the jury decided his fate. He had has hands clasped in front of him as he stood facing the jury.
The 21-year-old faced the death penalty for his role in the April 15, 2013 attack in which two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Death though may not come quickly. Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh spent four years on death row before he was executed. McVeigh was given the death penalty in 1997. He was executed in 2001.
The panel went through a lengthy and complicated verdict form.
The jurors found Tsarnaev guilty of several aggravating factors. They found that his role in the bombing was "heinous, cruel and depraved" on eight counts.
The jury found he committed an act of terrorism that involved substantial planning and premeditation.
The jury reached a decision in the penalty phase of the death penalty trial after 14 hours of deliberations.
Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.
The 2013 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Tsarnaev killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later.
The defense sought to save Tsarnaev's life by pinning most of the blame on his radicalized older brother.
Prosecutors portrayed Tsarnaev as an equal partner in the attack and so heartless he placed a bomb behind children, killing an 8-year-old boy.
wonder how many years this will take, I don't think the fed has executed anyone since Timothy McVeigh in 2003
FOX (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/15/jurors-to-continue-deliberating-punishment-for-boston-marathon-bomber/)
BOSTON – DEVELOPING: A federal jury Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the jury decided his fate. He had has hands clasped in front of him as he stood facing the jury.
The 21-year-old faced the death penalty for his role in the April 15, 2013 attack in which two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Death though may not come quickly. Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh spent four years on death row before he was executed. McVeigh was given the death penalty in 1997. He was executed in 2001.
The panel went through a lengthy and complicated verdict form.
The jurors found Tsarnaev guilty of several aggravating factors. They found that his role in the bombing was "heinous, cruel and depraved" on eight counts.
The jury found he committed an act of terrorism that involved substantial planning and premeditation.
The jury reached a decision in the penalty phase of the death penalty trial after 14 hours of deliberations.
Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.
The 2013 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Tsarnaev killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later.
The defense sought to save Tsarnaev's life by pinning most of the blame on his radicalized older brother.
Prosecutors portrayed Tsarnaev as an equal partner in the attack and so heartless he placed a bomb behind children, killing an 8-year-old boy.
wonder how many years this will take, I don't think the fed has executed anyone since Timothy McVeigh in 2003
FOX (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/15/jurors-to-continue-deliberating-punishment-for-boston-marathon-bomber/)