Boston Bomber Sentenced To Death

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also known as the Boston Bomber has been sentenced
to Death for his role in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

The 21-year-old naturalised American, was sentenced by a 12 man jury,
the same jury who found him guilty had to take three days to determine
his sentence, with the other choice being life without parole.

>Photo: Dzhokhar

The jury used the full arm of the law, sentencing Tsarnaev to death on
6 of the 17 counts. The defendant was said to have comported himself
with composure and propriety despite hearing the death sentence being
handed out.

The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch said: "We know all too well
that no verdict can heal the souls of those who lost loved ones, nor
the minds and bodies of those who suffered life-changing injuries from
this cowardly attack, But the ultimate penalty is the fitting
punishment for this horrific crime and we hope that the completion of
this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and
their families."

Meanwhile, Amnesty International has cried out against the death
sentence, which it said is not justice.

"It is outrageous that the federal government imposes this cruel and
inhuman punishment, particularly when the people of Massachusetts have
abolished it in their state. As death sentences decline worldwide, no
government can claim to be a leader in human rights when it sentences
its prisoners to death," the group said.

Tsarnaev had in 2013 alongside his older brother Tamerlan, detonated
two homemade pressure cooker bombs packed with nails and BBs.

The bomb killed three people, whose names were given as Martin
Richard, 8, Lingzi Lu, 23, and Krystle Campbell, 29. The bomb also
injured 264 other people, while more than a dozen of the victim lost
their legs.

Tamerlan was killed during a shootout with the police in Watertown,
Massachusetts, four days after the bombings, while Dzhokhar was
apprehended hours later.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev caught after a four day manhunt

The Brothers had been abandoned by their families, who rejected their
actions, a development that allegedly turned Dzhokhar and he has
failed to show remorse.