Boston Marathon bomber given death penalty
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted over bombing in the 2013 Boston Marathon, has been given the death penalty by a jury in the United States.
On Friday, the 12-member jury unanimously agreed to put Tsarnaev on death row following 14 hours of deliberations over three days.
The 21-year-old will be the youngest man on death row in the US.
Tsarnaev was arrested four days after bombing. He was injured and hiding in a boat on which he had reportedly scrawled a message calling the attacks a revenge for the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Out of the 30 criminal counts linked to the April 15, 2013 attack on the city's main sporting event, 17 carried the possibility of execution. It was not, however, clear upon which count all the jury members agreed.
This is the first death penalty in the Massachusetts since 1947. The state banned capital punishment in 1984.
The jury argued Tsarnaev had shown no remorse and rejected the idea that his brother, Tamerlan, (pictured below) had brainwashed him into joining in the bombings.
Tamerlan, Dzhokhar’s elder brother, died in a hospital in Boston on April 19, 2013 after sustaining critical injuries in a car-chase and shootout with the police following the attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260 others near the finish line of the city's marathon.
Tsarnaev will be executed by lethal injection but this could take years given the appeals process he is expected to embark on.
According to a poll released by Boston Globe last month, fewer than 20 percent of the people in the state support death for Tsarnaev, down from 33 percent in September 2013.
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