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Tsarnaev Apologizes Before Judge Sentences Him To Death from 2015-06-24T19:40:14
More than a month after the jury returned a verdict of death for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, all the raw wounds were ripped open again, with victim impact statements. And we were o...
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What's Next For Tsarnaev After The Verdict from 2015-05-18T17:03:14
Two years and a month after bombs exploded on the Boston Marathon finish line, becoming the biggest terrorist attack in America since 9/ll, a federal jury delivered a verdict of death to the con...
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Day 33: The Death Penalty For Tsarnaev from 2015-05-15T23:55:58
The death penalty. That's what 12 jurors quickly and unanimously decided is the just punishment for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings. The verdict appears a rejectio...
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Day 31: After Closings, Tsarnaev's Life In Jurors' Hands from 2015-05-13T21:44:04
The fate of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev--his life or death--is now in the hands of 12 jurors. In Day 31, the jury began deliberating, after hearing closing statements. Bo...
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Day 30: Tsarnaev Feels Remorse For Victims, Says Nun from 2015-05-11T18:55:56
For the first time in this federal death penalty case the jury got some insight into what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev thought of his Boston Marathon bombing victims. "No one deserves to suffer like they d...
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Day 29: 'Dead Man Walking' Nun Could Close Defense Case from 2015-05-07T18:53:51
It was an early day for jurors in the federal death penalty case of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In Day 29, Boeri and Cullen cover the testimony of a former prison warden ...
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Day 28: Tsarnaev's Defense Tries Several Angles As Case Nears End from 2015-05-06T20:27:40
The defense for convicted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has started to wrap up its case, tying up lose ends in the sentencing phase of the federal death penalty trial against him. Tod...
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Day 27: Defense Turns To Chechen History from 2015-05-05T20:29:36
The defense for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been presenting the jury with a social history of his family. Today, in Day 27, the defense turned the focus to their ethni...
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Day 26: Tsarnaev's Relatives Bring Him To Tears from 2015-05-04T20:05:42
All throughout the federal death penalty trial of convicted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a key question has been: Will the defense succeed in making him into a sympathetic figure, a...
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Day 25: Old Friends And Teachers Remember Tsarnaev As 'Kind' from 2015-04-29T21:09:38
In the days after the FBI identified Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, there was a near universal reaction from anyone who had known Dzhokha...
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Day 24: Defense Focuses On Tsarnaev's Brother, Sister-In-Law from 2015-04-28T19:53:19
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sat expressionless and nearly motionless next to his attorneys, just as he has done during every other day of the federal death penalty case against him. But listening to his d...
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Day 23: Tsarnaev Defense Promises 'No Martyrdom' In Life Sentence from 2015-04-27T20:34:20
"We've now seen more pain, and more horror, and more grief in this courtroom than any of you would have thought possible." That’s how attorneys today for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokha...
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Day 22: The Prosecution Rests In Penalty Phase from 2015-04-23T19:33:39
Three days into the sentencing phase in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the government has rested its case. In Day 22, Boeri and Cullen discuss the prosecution's decision to end on a chilling bu...
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Day 21: The Curious Subject Of Tsarnaev's Middle Finger from 2015-04-22T20:17:35
In the second day of the penalty phase in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the jury listened to bittersweet memories shared by family members whose loved ones died at the hands of the Tsarnaev b...
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Day 20: Penalty Phase Of Tsarnaev Trial Begins from 2015-04-21T20:42:54
At the start of the second phase in the trial against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the prosecution began to make the case that he deserves the death penalty. In Day 20, Boeri and Cullen discuss the openin...
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What To Expect In The Second Phase Of Tsarnaev Trial from 2015-04-15T15:03:46
Two years ago today, two bombs exploded near the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, killing three and injuring more than 260 others. Last week, the jury found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guil...
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Day 19: Tsarnaev Found Guilty On All Counts from 2015-04-08T19:57:29
It comes as no surprise that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been found guilty of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. After 11 hours of deliberations over two days, the jurors found Tsarnaev guilty on all 3...
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Day 18: A Look At The Tsarnaev Jury from 2015-04-07T18:29:07
Twelve jurors, selected from a pool of more than 1,300, were sequestered in a room today to review the 30 charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In Day 18, the first full day of deliberations in the...
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Day 17: Tsarnaev's Guilt Now In Jurors' Hands from 2015-04-06T20:01:19
The guilt of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is now in the hands of a jury. After 16 days of testimony, 95 witnesses and piles of evidence, the 12 jurors will now deliberate on the 30 charges against him. On ...
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Day 16: Tsarnaev's Defense Team Rests from 2015-03-31T18:59:24
After 15 days of testimony from witnesses for the prosecution, attorneys for admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began to present their case yesterday afternoon. A day and two hour...
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Day 15: Prosecution Concludes With Detailing Of 8-Year-Old's Death from 2015-03-30T20:34:07
Prosecutors have spent the last month presenting some haunting evidence against admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, which seems to go beyond what the government needs to do to con...
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Day 14: How The Marathon Bombs Were Built from 2015-03-26T20:19:41
The enduring images from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing are of mass carnage - of innocent people with their limbs blown off by two pressure-cooker bombs placed near the finish line. Boeri and ...
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Day 13: Tsarnaev's Texts And Other Digital Data from 2015-03-25T22:36:19
Every time you send a text message, swipe a credit card, use a GPS system or go into a public building, you leave a digital record of your activities. And if you're 19 years old, those records a...
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Day 12: The Evidence Piles Up Against Tsarnaev from 2015-03-24T20:31:59
Less than a month before the Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev rented two 9mm handguns for target practice at a shooting range in New Hampshire. The weapons were the same caliber ...
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Day 11: Global Jihad And The Radicalization Of Tsarnaev from 2015-03-23T20:22:40
The prosecution and defense agree - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was involved in the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the killing of MIT police officer Sean Collier, and the shootout with police in Watertow...
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Day 10: A First Look At Tsarnaev's Digital Trail from 2015-03-19T19:42:06
In the government's case against admitted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, they want to prove that he is a radical jihadi, and that's why he planted a bomb near the finish line in April...
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Day 9: The Bloody Gloves And Other Evidence from 2015-03-18T21:08:07
As moving and emotional as the stories in this trial have been, the successful prosecution of a criminal in a death penalty case depends not just on testimony, but on physical evidence. In Day 9...
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Day 8: Tsarnaev's Friend Turns Against Him from 2015-03-17T18:21:09
Any hope the defense has of saving Tsarnaev's life is in convincing the jury that he was just a deadbeat, pot-smoking college student, under the sway of his older brother Tamerlan, the real jiha...
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Day 7: The Shootout In Watertown from 2015-03-16T20:16:03
Three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, authorities searched the city in an epic manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers. That led to a shootout in the Boston suburb of Watertown, the death of t...
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Days 5 & 6: The Fourth Murder And A Carjacking Victim's Harrowing Account from 2015-03-12T18:25:47
When we talk about the Marathon bombing, we talk about the three people who were killed that day. But there was a fourth murder, three days later - of an MIT police officer. In Week 2, the trial...
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Days 3 & 4: Why Tsarnaev's Tweets Matter from 2015-03-10T19:06:28
In the second week of the trial, attention in the courtroom has turned from what happened to why. Boeri and Cullen discuss the defense's focus on Tsarnaev's Twitter feed, and on a nine-minute su...
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Day 2: Icons Of The Bombing Take The Stand from 2015-03-05T20:18:49
The iconic photo from the Boston Marathon bombing is a determined man in a cowboy hat pushing a young man in a wheelchair whose legs have been blasted off. That young man took the stand as testi...
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What To Expect In The Tsarnaev Trial from 2015-03-04T06:30:51
As the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev opens, Boeri and Cullen talk about the defense's concerns over jury bias, with the trial being held in Boston, and what changed when this became a federal death...
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