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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: verdict reached in Boston Marathon bombing trial Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty of Boston Marathon bombing
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Jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have reached a verdict after two days of deliberations. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty on multiple charges, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
They will reconvene in the courtroom at 1.45pm ET. The guilty verdict, which was widely expected, means Tsarnaev is eligible for the death penalty.
Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with conspiring with his now-dead brother, Tamerlan, to bomb the 2013 marathon. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when twin pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line. Tsarnaev, now 21, was found guilty in federal court of planning and carrying out the bombing with his older brother Tamerlan on April 15 2013. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured in the attack, when two pressure cookers detonated at 2.49pm, near to the marathon’s finish line in downtown Boston.
Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who moved to the US as a youngster, was also found guilty of killing MIT police officer Sean Collier in the hours after the bombing. Tamerlan was killed during a subsequent gun battle with police.
Jurors in Boston reached their verdict after two days of deliberations and weeks of testimony, in one of the most closely watched trials in recent US history.
The same jury will now decide whether Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or receive life in prison. Sentencing begins on Monday.
Tsarnaev’s defence lawyers had tried to portray him as coerced by his elder brother, a characterisation which they admitted bore little relevance in the ‘guilt’ phase of the trial but which will become crucial in the sentencing phase.
“For this destruction, suffering and profound loss, there is no excuse. No one is trying to make one. Planting bombs at the Boston Marathon one year and 51 weeks ago was a senseless act,” Tsarnaev defence attorney Judy Clarke said in her closing statement on Monday.