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15 May 2015

The jury of the trial for the attack on the Boston marathon on April 15, 2013 reached the verdict: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the only accused of the massacre, was sentenced to death.

The decision comes from the federal jury, the same that last month had found the 21-year-old of Chechen origin guilty of all charges, including the 17 that could lead to the death penalty for the attacks, carried out with his brother who was later killed, in which three people died almost instantly, 17 lost their legs and over 240 were injured.

The death sentence will be carried out by lethal injection.

The other option was life imprisonment without the possibility of release.

The appeal of the parents of the 8-year-old child

The repeated appeals to save the life of the young Chechen terrorist who was only 19 at the time of the attack were therefore worth nothing.

Among these appeals that of the parents of Martin Richard, the 8-year-old boy who, together with two other people, lost his life in the attack of April 15, 2013. To weigh on the choice of capital punishment, instead of life imprisonment, also the fact that only three out of 12 jurors believed that Dzhokhar acted under the influence of his brother's dominant figure, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a firefight with police.

Dzokhar listened to the reading of the sentence without showing any particular emotion, witnesses say.

Most likely he will now be transferred to death row at Terre Haute Penitentiary in Indiana. 

There is no federal

death penalty in

The death penalty is the first to be decided by a federal jury for acts of terrorism in the post-9/11 era (the 2001 date of the terrorist attack). at the Twin Towers in New York).

This was claimed by Kevin McNally, director of the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, which coordinates the defense of sentences related to the death penalty.

The laws of Massachusetts, in fact, do not provide for the death penalty, which was therefore applied on a federal mandate.

The sentence was read in the courtroom of the Federal Court in Boston in the presence of the 21-year-old after the 12 jurors were gathered for over 14 hours in the council chamber.

A little over two years ago, on April 15, 2013, at 2.45 pm, two bombs exploded simultaneously near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260. , even an eight-year-old boy.

According to the FBI, the two bombs were built using two pressure cookers filled with cheap explosives, nails, bearings and pieces of metal.

After analyzing the video from the security cameras, on April 18 the police will identify the two suspects: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Chechen origin.

Two years earlier, Russian secret services had reported Tamerlan Tsarnaev to the FBI, identifying him as a supporter of Islamic fundamentalism.

Three days later, on the evening of April 18, Sean Collier, a 27-year-old policeman, was killed near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the Tsarnaev brothers, on the run in an SUV.

On April 19, the police located the two brothers in Watertown, a town on the outskirts of Boston.

After a chase and a shooting Tamerlan Tsarnaev dies, while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, wounded, manages to hide inside a boat.

He is found shortly after by the agents and taken to the hospital.

On April 30, two of Dzhokhar's friends are accused of trying to destroy evidence by hiding the boy's computer.

Another is accused of perjury.

On May 22 in Orlando, Florida, an FBI agent accidentally kills Ibragim Todashev, another friend of Dzhokhar's.

The officer stated that he was questioning the suspect in his apartment when the man assaulted him.

The FBI claims that Todashev, before dying, admitted his involvement in the attack.

The trial opens on 4 March 2015.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must answer thirty counts, four of them for murder.

On April 8, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is found guilty of all thirty counts of which 17 include the death penalty.