On Friday, the Jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial sat through its third day of deliberations over whether bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should see immediate death with the death sentence or suffer life in prison without possibility for release. As of 3 p.m. on Friday, the jury reached a verdict to be read aloud in court, notes the Wall Street Journal.
Last month, the 21-year-old was imprisoned for the April 15, 2013 murder of three people and the injuries of 264 others by releasing two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon race's congested finish line, notes Reuters.
Three days following the bombing, Dzhokhar and his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, shot and killed a police officer, stole a Chinese businessman's car and threw bombs at police officers, resulting in a hunt and the lockdown of the entire Boston area. Tsarnaev moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts from Russia with his family approximately a decade prior to the attack and embraced Al Qaeda's Islamist principles, hoping to "punish America" with the bombing. After participating in a Watertown, Massachusetts gun fight with police and being run over by Dzhokar with a stolen car, Tamerlan died on April 19, 2013.
Defenese attorneys painted a picture of Dzhokhar as a doomed teenager who became caught up in the bad choices of his older brother, Tamerlan, who they blame for creating the idea of the attack after being rejected by a militant group he struggled to join on a trip to Russia in 2012. Throughout the trial, the jury was exposed to gritty and graphic videos of the bombings and the gory aftershock. They heard accounts from 18 people suffering loss of limbs as well as the families and friends of the four people that lost their lives at the hands of the Tsarnaeves.
Chinese exchange student, 23-year-old Lingzi Lu, eight-year-old Martin Richard and 29-year-old restaurant manager, Krystle Campbell, died in the Boston Marathon Bombing while Massachusetts Institute of Technology cop, Sean Collier, was shot and killed three days later by the Tsarnaevs.
