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.

Cemeteries across the state of Massachusetts are refusing to accept the body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev for burial.

A funeral home director was today trying to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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

For a person who engages in terrorist activity like that in Boston, the immediate victims are meaningless. They’re simply a means to an end, writes Stephanie Pappas

The fatal explosions in Boston have hints of a right-wing terrorist attack rather than al Qaida-inspired extremism, according to one of the world’s leading experts on counter-terrorism.

A lawyer for the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing asked a US federal appeals court to let him investigate why the government insists his imprisoned client is still a danger to America.

Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik has shocked an Oslo courtroom with his grisly descriptions of a massacre carried out on an island youth camp.

Anders Behring Breivik acquired the knowledge to carry out a bomb and shooting rampage on the internet, he told a Norwegian court today.

An FBI mole speaks for the first time about life in the seedy world of right-wing terror. Ross Schneiderman reports

MANUFACTURERS of fertiliser will be among those facing stringent new EU regulations in the wake of Anders Behring Breivik’s murder spree in Norway.

The bombing of the government building in Oslo has evoked memories of Timothy McVeigh’s attack on the Oklahoma City federal building 16 years ago.

THE gunman who carried out the Tucson, Arizona, massacre has refused to say anything to police since he was taken into custody.

The suspect in a deadly Arizona shooting is in a federal courtroom facing charges of attempting to assassinate a congresswoman.

The gunman who carried out the Tucson massacre in the US has refused to say anything to police since he was taken into custody.

AMERICANS — don’t you just love them? Actually, by and large, I do. There’s an ugly snootiness in some quarters in Ireland, and Europe more broadly, towards the US and its citizens which was never quite going to be eradicated by the election of Barack Obama. I have written as much before.

A PAIR of disaffected teenagers inspired by the Columbine school massacre planned a copycat killing spree in Britain, a court heard yesterday.

TENNIS ball bomber Neil Lewington is facing a life sentence after being convicted of planning a racist terror campaign.

Oklahoma City is marking the 12th anniversary of the bombing that killed 168 people by reaching out to victims of the Virginia Tech shootings and victims of violence everywhere.

Oklahoma bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has broken a decade of silence to implicate a third man in the terror attack that killed 168 people.

WITH 168 moments of silence and the message that goodness can overcome evil, victims of the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history were remembered yesterday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

OKLAHOMA CITY bombing conspirator Terry Nichols yesterday asked for forgiveness and offered to help victims’ families with the healing process as he was sentenced to life without parole on 161 murder charges.

Convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has been spared the death penalty by jurors who convicted him of 161 counts of murder but remained deadlocked over his sentence.

A STATE jury took just five hours to find Terry Nichols guilty of 161 counts of murder for the bombing that destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building — charges for which he could be sentenced to death.

Nearly a decade after the Oklahoma City bombing, a man was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out what was then the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.

THE judge overseeing bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' state trial on 162 first-degree murder counts entered a not guilty plea on Nichols' behalf during arraignment yesterday.

“SON of Sam” serial killer David Berkowitz has written a letter telling the Washington-area sniper to “stop hurting innocent people”.

Two men have been arrested in Belgium after police found more than one hundred kilos of chemicals in a pub.

Muslims worried about a possible backlash against them after Tuesday's

Ending months of speculation over whether he would drop the case, the new district attorney in Oklahoma City said he will prosecute bombing conspirator Terry Nichols on state murder charges that could bring the death penalty.

The Pope opened the doors of his hilltop summer residence to President Bush today for their first meeting, a closed-door session underpinned by touchy issues of capital punishment and embryonic stem cell research.

Pope John Paul II was today opening the doors of his hilltop summer residence to US president George W Bush during their first meeting - but neither intended to raise touchy issues of capital punishment or embryonic stem cell research.

An FBI agent who spied for Moscow today saved his life and his pension by pleading guilty to selling his country’s secrets.

The Council of Europe parliamentary assembly has threatened to remove the US and Japan as observers at the organisation unless they stop all executions ‘‘without delay’’ and move to repeal the death penalty, officials said.

The first complete broadcast of an execution in the United States will be aired on New Zealand public radio.

A US drugs baron has been executed by lethal injection on the same stretcher which Timothy McVeigh was on when he was killed.

Authorities at the prison where Timothy McVeigh was executed have used a decoy hearse as a security measure.

The story of executed bomber Timothy McVeigh is to become a television mini-series after a broadcaster bought the rights to his biography.

A follower of Osama bin Laden received life in prison without parole for the deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya after a New York jury was deadlocked amid concerns that imposing a death penalty would create a martyr.

Timothy McVeigh was given the Last Rites in his final moments before execution.

There was relief but little joy tonight in the US as the country came to terms with the execution of Timothy McVeigh, its worst-ever mass murderer.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed by lethal injection today.

Timothy McVeigh has been executed by lethal execution in Terre Haute, Indiana.