(Getty)Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the April 5, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 others.
Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the April 5, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 others – setting the stage for another court showdown between federal prosecutors and defense lawyers to decide whether the young Russian immigrant will go to the death chamber.
Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 counts connected to the worst act of terrorism on American soil since the 9/11 attacks.
“There’s a task ahead of you,” U.S. District Judge George O’Toole told the jury after all the convictions were read. He asked the jury to reconvene next week to decide Tsarnaev’s fate.
During the penalty phase, Tsarnaev’s lawyers will present so-called mitigating evidence they hope will save his life – including evidence about his family, his relationship with his brother, and his childhood in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and later in the volatile Dagestan region of Russia.
Prosecutors will present so-called aggravating factors in support of the death penalty, including the killing of a child and the targeting of the marathon because of the potential for maximum bloodshed.
Among the convictions were charges of using a weapon of mass destruction – the pressure cooker bombs that caused the marathon bloodbath.
The twin bombs were used by 21-year-old Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, 26, to kill and maim runners as they neared the crowded finish line in the Boston marathon.
He was also found guilty of murdering the three victims of the bombings and shooting a police officer to death three days after setting off the pressure cooker bombs.
The blasts killed restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu, 23, and 8-year-old Martin Richard. Massachusetts of Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, 26, was the offier shot during the manhunt for the bombers.
The jury was asked to decide 30 charges against Tsarnaev.
(Getty)Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of carrying out the April 5, 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 others.
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