BOSTON – A federal jury today decided that Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shall be put to death for his crime that killed four persons and injured hundreds.
Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.
“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev coldly and callously perpetrated a terrorist attack that injured hundreds of Americans and ultimately took the lives of three individuals: Krystle Marie Campbell, a 29-year-old native of Medford; Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China; and Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester who was watching the marathon with his family just a few feet from the second bomb,” said U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch.
After unleashing two bombs to enlist the carnage, Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev murdered Sean Collier, a 27-year-old patrol officer on the MIT campus. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was soon shot to death as a search for the bombers was undertaken.
“We know all too well that no verdict can heal the souls of those who lost loved ones, nor the minds and bodies of those who suffered life-changing injuries from this cowardly attack,” Lynch continued. “But the ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment for this horrific crime and we hope that the completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and their families. We thank the jurors for their service, the people of Boston for their vigilance, resilience and support and the law enforcement community in Boston and throughout the country for their important work.”
Tsarnaev will face a lethal injection if he is unsuccessful in likely appeals that will be filed on his behalf.
Appeals that will last 3 to 5 years. He should be executed immediately.