Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Rolling Stone defends Boston cover. Death sentence for Boston bomber. Image source, Boston Globe via Getty Images. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his elder brother Tamerlan planted bombs close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April Rolling Stone defends Boston bomb suspect cover.
Lelling, whose predecessor oversaw the prosecution of Tsarnaev , said Friday that authorities were reviewing the ruling from the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and would have more to say in the coming weeks.
Andrea D. He killed and badly wounded many. Surveillance video showed the brothers carrying the pressure cooker bombs in backpacks and moving through the crowd near the marathon finish line in what federal prosecutors called a coordinated attack. Tamerlan set off the first bomb, a 6-quart pressure cooker that contained gunpowder, nails and BBs, prosecutors said.
The bomb killed Campbell, a year-old restaurant manager, and permanently injured several other people who lost their legs.
The second pressure cooker bomb, carried in by Dzhokhar, went off 12 seconds later and killed two people, Martin and Lu, a graduate student from China. The bombings sparked a manhunt for days that shut down the city and resulted in wall-to-wall coverage of the search. The brothers, while on the run, killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier. After they stole an SUV, the two were chased by police. Tamerlan died in an explosive firefight with police in nearby Watertown.
Dzhokhar was arrested a day later. Victims, families to relive another trial. The decision to order a new trial will be difficult for the families of victims, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh said after the decision came down on Friday. He's going to live within those four walls.
This man was not seated on the jury; he was disqualified because he was opposed to the death penalty. Because the government was seeking the death penalty, jurors had to be willing to consider applying it. Most of the potential jurors had some kind of personal connection to the bombing. One lived in the same neighborhood as the Richard family; another had a friend who was a first responder to the attack; a third was a marathon runner.
Sixty-eight per cent of the potential jurors said that they believed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be guilty. Before voir dire started, the lawyers on both sides and the judge debated how potential jurors should be questioned on what they knew and thought of the bombing.
Polling indicated that most Bostonians preferred life imprisonment for Tsarnaev over a death sentence; the requirement that jurors be open to applying the death penalty probably narrowed the jury pool significantly.
Some potential jurors appeared to soft-pedal their opposition to capital punishment. Juror No. The prosecutor, Steve Mellin, pressed him to give an example of someone who ought to be put to death for his crimes. The juror suggested Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav dictator. The interview I remember best was with Juror No.
They did it by their actions—not coming to work, stealing, whatever.
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