At 21 years old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the youngest person on federal death row in the United States. For aiding and abetting the Boston Marathon bombings and 6 of 17 death penalty count charges, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death today by a jury in a Boston federal courthouse.
Tsarnaev was convicted by the same jury of seven women and five men last month of all 30 counts related to the deadly April 15, 2013 bombing. Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, and another 260 were injured when Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated twin explosive devices near the finish line of the marathon. Three days later, the brothers murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police four days after the explosions. The jury today found death the penalty was "appropriate" for six of the 17 death penalty eligible counts against Dzhkohar Tsarnaev.During his trial, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty, but his defense said from the start he would not shirk responsibility for his role in the blasts –- only that he did it while under his older brother’s influence. Legal analysts at the time said the defense was designed to set up a similar tactic in the death penalty phase of the trial in order to win Tsarnaev life in prison.
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