BOSTON, May 15, 2015 (AFP) - A US jury on Friday sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (pic) to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, one of the worst assaults on American soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
It took the jury more than 14 hours to choose death on six of 17 capital counts for the Muslim former university student of Chechen descent who came to the United States as a child and became a citizen.
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