Jury set to announce life sentence or death penalty for Boston bomber Tsarnaev

May 16, 2015 01:01

A jury has reached a verdict in the penalty phase of the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The verdict -- either death or life in prison for Tsarnaev -- is expected to be read when court reconvenes shortly.

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 twin blasts ripped through crowds near the finish line of the marathon.

Tsarnaev's older brother and co-conspirator, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police four days after the explosions, hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured in a dry-docket boat.

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