Boston Bomber Sentenced To Death (Photos)

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also known as the Boston Bomber has been sentenced to Death for his role in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

The 21-year-old naturalized American, was sentenced by a 12 man jury, the same jury who found him guilty had to take three days to determine his sentence, with the other choice being life without parole.

The jury used the full arm of the law, sentencing Tsarnaev to death on 6 of the 17 counts. The defendant was said to have comported himself with composure and propriety despite hearing the death sentence being handed out.

The US Attorney General, Loretta Lynch said: “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, But the ultimate penalty is the 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.”

Meanwhile, Amnesty International has cried out against the death sentence, which it said is not justice.

“It is outrageous that the federal government imposes this cruel and inhuman punishment, particularly when the people of Massachusetts have abolished it in their state. As death sentences decline worldwide, no government can claim to be a leader in human rights when it sentences its prisoners to death,” the group said.

Tsarnaev had in 2013 alongside his older brother Tamerlan, detonated two homemade pressure cooker bombs packed with nails and BBs.

Dzhokhar with older brother Tamerlan

The bomb killed three people, whose names were given as Martin Richard, 8, Lingzi Lu, 23, and Krystle Campbell, 29. The bomb also injured 264 other people, while more than a dozen of the victim lost their legs.

Tamerlan was killed during a shootout with the police in Watertown, Massachusetts, four days after the bombings, while Dzhokhar was apprehended hours later.

 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev caught after a four day manhunt

The Brothers had been abandoned by their families, who rejected their actions, a development that allegedly turned Dzhokhar and he has failed to show remorse.