IN PHOTO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2015.
IN PHOTO: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this handout photo presented as evidence by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, Massachusetts on March 23, 2015. Tsarnaev was heavily influenced by al Qaeda literature and lectures, some of which was found on his laptop, a counterterrorism expert testified at his trial on March 23, 2015 REUTERS/U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston/Handout via Reuters

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death on Friday. The decision was made after 10 weeks of testifying of 150 witnesses, including survivors who lost their limbs and parents who lost their children.

The federal jury sentenced Tsarnaev last Friday for bombing Boston Marathon in 2013, which left three people dead and hundreds injured, and for the murder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier as he and his brother attempted to escape. During the trial, Tsarnaev showed no emotion when he learnt that he would face death by lethal injection. Bombing survivor Sydney Corcoran said that after learning the final verdict, she and her mother can move on.
"My mother and I think that NOW he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice. In his own words, "an eye for an eye," she wrote on Twitter. Corcoran was nearly bled to death during the tragedy, while her mother lost both legs.
The incident happened on April 15, 2013 as the annual event started. Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev built two pressure-cooker bombs for their attack. The bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon. Yahoo reports that in 10 weeks of testifying, the witnesses, survivors and parents of the victims were so emotional when they attested their plea.
Tsarnaev's defence claimed was he was under the influence of his older brother Tamerlan. Tamerlan apparently played a dominant, father-like role to Dzhokhar and had radical religious views. The defence's claim was rejected by the jury.
What made the jury agreed with prosecutors is that the bombing is constituated as an act of terrorism despite of the claim of former college student. Tsarnaev's defence lawyer asked the jury to weigh 20 mitigating factors to spare the death of the accused. However, there were only three jurors who agreed that he was under the control of his older brother. The older Tsarnaev brother was 26 years old when he died during the shootout with police four days after the bombing.
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