Boston bomber sentenced to death

A US jury yesterday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured 264 at the world-renowned race. It took 15 hours to reach a decision.

The federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: Life in prison without the possibility of release.

The same panel last month found the ethnic Chechen guilty of placing a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race’s crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a policeman. The bombing was one of the highest-profile attacks on US soil since September 11, 2001.