Lawyers for Boston bomber call final witness

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case to save him from the death penalty, calling a famous death penalty opponent as their final witness to testify that Tsarnaev told her, “no one deserves to suffer like they did.”

Sister Helen Prejean, who was made famous in the 1995 movie Dead Man Walking starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, met Tsarnaev five times since March at the request of the defence. She said she could hear in his voice that he regretted his role in the 2013 attacks, which left three people dead and more than 250 wounded.

“I had every reason to think that he was taking it in and that he was genuinely sorry for what he did,” Prejean testified yesterday.