The Boston Bomber's Final Verdict
A jury of five men and seven women sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by execution on Friday after finding him guilty on 30 federal charges last month for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
The April 15, 2013, bombings killed three people and left over 260 others wounded.
The death penalty was delivered by the same jurors who convicted Tsarnaev last month on 30 counts of carjacking, robbery and using weapons of mass destruction resulting in death. Only 17 of the charges, however, carried the possibility of the death penalty, for which the jury sentenced him to death on six of the counts.
The 12 jurors handed down the death sentence for Tsarnaev for his role in killing Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student.
According to the Boston Globe, jurors decided not to sentence Tsarnaev to death for the two victims who were killed by his brother, Tamerlan, which include Krystle Campbell, 29, and MIT Police Officer Sean A. Collier, 27, "whom the defense argued was shot to death by Tamerlan, not Dzhokhar."
