Dzhokar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber has been sentenced to death. According to Judge George O'Toole he is to die by injection. Dzhokar and his brother Tamerlan, who was killed in a gunfight with police days after the attack at the finish line of the iconic race killed three people, maimed dozens and injured hundreds in April 2013.The jurors weighed 12 aggravating factors against 21 mitigating factors in determining Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's sentence. They were charged to consider the suffering Tsarnaev caused, his intent, his character and even whether or not he was remorseful.
The jurors rejected defense efforts to depict Tamerlan as the mastermind of the attack, while the younger man was only following a charismatic, domineering sibling. Tsarnaev was convicted on all 30 counts and sentenced to death on six of them. The jury found him responsible for killing four people, seriously maiming 17 and injuring hundreds more.
He apologised in court and begged Allah to forgive him and his brother for the suffering he has caused, the lives he has taken and the damage he has done.
Though death penalty has since been outlawed in Massachusetts in 1984, and no one has been executed in the state since 1947 Tsarnaev was tried in federal court, where the death penalty remained an option.
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