WPRO News and the Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) – The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It’s whether he deserves to die for it.
In a startling opening statement at the nation’s biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev’s own lawyer told a jury that the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime.
“It WAS him,” said defense attorney Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty specialists.
But in a strategy aimed at saving Tsarnaev from a death sentence, she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.
