Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be put to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. After convicting Tsarnaev of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and 29 other charges last month, today a federal court jury voted that he receive capital punishment in the form of lethal injection. Dzhokhar and older brother Tamerlan (who was later killed during a shootout with police) set off two homemade pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the famed Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and over 250 were injured by the explosions and resulting shrapnel; many required amputations and other life-altering surgeries.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the two men behind the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, has been found guilty of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and 29 other charges, making it possible that he'll face the death penalty. In April 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan set off two homemade bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring over 250. When investigators released images of two unknown suspects, the pair fled, shooting and killing a police officer in the process. Escaping from a firefight with police, Dzhokhar ran over and killed his brother; he was eventually found injured in a …

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the primary conspirator in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people, slipped through airport security because his name was misspelled in a database, according to a new Congressional report.

The Russian intelligence agency warned US authorities twice that Tsarnaev was a radical Islamist and potentially dangerous. As a result, Tsarnaev was entered into two US government databases: the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment and the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS), an interagency border inspection database.

A special note was added to TECS in October of 2011, according to NBC News, requiring …

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Shortly after the Boston bombing, a disconcerting and seemingly conspiratorial story came out: chief suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had been killed in a shootout with police, was alleged to be linked to an unsolved triple homicide that occurred nearly two years earlier. But the story actually wasn't so conspiratorial. The FBI began investigating, and a month later a man linked to both Tsarnaev and the killings, Ibragim Todashev, was reportedly shot and killed in his apartment by the bureau. Not much conclusive evidence has shed light on the killings since then, but an exhaustive investigative report from Boston Magazine and This American Lif …

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will head to trial on November 3rd, according to NBC News. The United States government is pursuing the death penalty in its case against Tsarnaev, who is accused of helping to orchestrate an attack that shook the nation last April. Three people were killed in the blasts that targeted marathon onlookers; more than 260 others were wounded. The planned trial date is much sooner than Tsarnaev's defense team would have liked. His lawyers originally requested that Tsarnaev's day in court arrive no earlier than September 2015, but Judge George A. O'Toole sided in favor of the government's fall time …

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Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Though Massachusetts does not allow the death penalty, Tsarnaev is facing federal charges including the alleged use of a weapon of mass destruction. "After consideration of the relevant facts, the applicable regulations and the submissions made by the defendant's counsel, I have determined that the United States will seek the death penalty in this matter," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. "The nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm compel this decision."

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead older brother and one of the suspected masterminds behind the Boston Marathon bombings heard voices in his head and may have been afflicted with schizophrenia, the Boston Globe reports in a comprehensive new investigation into the Tsarnaev family. A five-month investigation by the Globe depicts a family that imploded in the wake of its members' personal failures, creating a toxic environment that may have led them to gravitate toward violence. "Taken together," the Globe reports, "these findings suggest that the motivation for the Tsarnaev brothers' violent acts is more likely rooted in the turbulent collapse of t …

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Fighting free expression with free expression, an officer with the Massachusetts State Police who, like many Americans, was upset with Rolling Stone magazine's new cover treatment of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has published a series of photos in Boston Magazine that he believes more accurately represent Tsarnaev's actions and character. Massachusetts State Police Sergeant Sean Murphy said he took the photos, some of which depict a wounded and bleeding Tsarnaev, during the nearly week-long manhunt for the bombing suspects in April.

Most of the images are of police and other law enforcement agencies scouring the Boston …

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