A court artist’s rendering of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the last surviving Boston Marathon bomber, as the verdict was read aloud.
DEVELOPING: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed. The verdict came nearly two years was to the day that three people were killed and more than 260 injured in the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings.
Tsarnaev showed no visible emotion as he listened to the verdict being read aloud after a day and a half of deliberations. He was found guilty on all 30 counts that included conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Both offenses are punishable by death.
His conviction comes as no surprise after his lawyer admitted during opening statements that Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan was killed in a shoot out with the Boston Police Department and the FBI, which ended in Dzhokhar escaping as he ran over his brother’s body.
The defense argued that the younger Dzhokhar was influenced by his older brother, whom he idolized along with Allah and the Prophet Muhammed.
