Boston bomber sentenced to death by lethal injection
May 16, 2015 01:06
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty last month of 30 terrorism and other charges. Of those charges, 17 were eligible for the death penalty.
Jurors were required to fill out a lengthy, complicated verdict form that asked them to make findings on 12 aggravating factors prosecutors said support a death sentence and 21 mitigating factors his lawyers said support a decision to instead sentence him to life in prison.
The jurors then had to weigh any mitigating factors they found against any aggravating factors to determine Tsarnaev's sentence.
During the penalty phase of the judicial proceedings, prosecutors brushed off defense arguments that Tsarnaev was under the strong influence of his older, radicalized brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a police shootout.
They said even though he was only 19 at the time of the marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was old enough to know right from wrong, and he wanted to avenge US wars in Iran and Afghanistan.
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