Dzokhar Tsarnaev was yesterday found guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and of fatally shooting a police officer four days later.

The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial concluded its first day of deliberations yesterday without reaching a verdict on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is guilty of the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 others.

Jurors in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have begun deliberations, a day after both prosecutors and his lawyers told them Tsarnaev must be held accountable for participating in the terror attack.

As he planted a backpack containing a bomb just feet from a group of children, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made a cold-hearted decision aimed at spreading terror, a federal prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments at Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial.

Two decades have passed since Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, but the memory remains vivid for Tonya McCabe, who sat on the jury that sentenced him to die.

Prosecutors have rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with gruesome autopsy photos of the people who died in the 2013 terror attack.

A woman giving evidence from a wheelchair in the Boston Marathon bombing trial has recalled shielding her husband from the sight of his mangled leg.

A man who became one of the lasting images of the Boston Marathon bombing when he was wheeled away, ashen-faced, his legs severely injured, has told a court that he locked eyes with the bomber’s older brother before the explosives went off.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued he had fallen under the influence of his older brother.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has gone on trial over the Boston Marathon bombing, with prosecutors saying he used a backpack to plant a bomb designed to “tear people apart and create a bloody spectacle”.

A Florida Islamic group has filed a formal notice with the FBI that it plans to sue it for $30m (€26m) in the death of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of a Boston Marathon bomb suspect.

From the moment US prosecutors stand up on Wednesday and begin their case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, their minds and those of their defence counterparts will be focused on just one thing: The death penalty.

The trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev can stay in Massachusetts, a US appeal court has ruled.

Potential jurors stared intently at Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jury selection in his federal death penalty trial began under tight security.

A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to charges of trafficking heroin and possessing an illegal handgun in connection with the April 2013 bombings.

A college friend was convicted of trying to protect Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by agreeing with another friend to get rid of items they took from his room three days after the attack.

A man who knew the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings has been charged with obstructing the investigation.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to make prosecutors turn over family-related evidence as they try to build a case that his older brother was the “main instigator” of the deadly attack.

A judge has set a November trial date for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev over the Boston Marathon bombing.

AS 2013 closes, here is my countdown of what were the stories that left the most impression on me during the year.

Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.

His arm in a cast, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges yesterday in his first courtroom appearance since his capture at the end of a chaotic week in April.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill.

Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, legal documents revealed.

Michael Moynihan on his week in the online terror underworld.

The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she is not a terrorist.

THE Boston Marathon bombing was not another 9/11. Not close.

The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention centre, officials say.

The two men accused of carrying out last week’s bombing of the Boston Marathon planned a second bomb attack on New York’s Times Square, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday.

The Boston Marathon bombing suspects intended to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square, New York City officials have said.

The mother of the two Boston bombing suspects says she now regrets moving her family to the US and believes they would have been better off in a village in Dagestan.

The US government added the name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect to a terrorist database 18 months before the deadly explosions, officials say.

The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by a radical brand of Islam but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, US officials have said after interrogating and charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with crimes which could bring the death penalty.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was yesterday charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence.

The parents of Tamerlan Tsarnaev have insisted that he went to Dagestan and Chechnya last year to visit relatives and had nothing to do with militants operating in the volatile part of Russia.

If Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already plotting the Boston Marathon bombings when he stayed in this bustling city at the heart of Islamist insurgency last year, neighbours say he hid it well.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, broke their cover hours after authorities released photographs of the suspects.

Boston-area residents came together in prayer and reflection yesterday after a tumultuous week as the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalised under heavy guard apparently in no shape for interrogation.

As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay in hospital under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators’ plan to question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his rights.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was still in hospital this morning, in a serious condition and under heavy guard.

The enhanced police presence for tomorrow’s London Marathon will remain in place despite the death and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Scotland Yard said today.

The 19-year-old college student wanted over the Boston Marathon bombings is seriously ill in hospital and unable to be questioned after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralysed and his older brother and accomplice dead.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been captured alive and is in police custody, it has been confirmed.