Jury Reaches Verdict In Boston Marathon Bombing Trial

The jury has reached a verdict in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will either be sentenced to life in prison or death. The jury’s decision comes more than two years after Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, set off two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 — killing four and injuring more than 260 others. On April 8, Dzhokhar was found guilty of all 30 charges against him in connection with April 2013 attacks. Seventeen of the counts were capital charges carrying the possibility of the death penalty. The 21-year-old was found guilty of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction – the top charge – and causing the deaths of Krystle Campbell, Collier, Lingzi Lu, and Martin Richard.