(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a remorseless terrorist who deserves to die for killing innocent Americans in the name of politics, prosecutors told jurors at the end of his trial on Wednesday.
The 21-year-old former student was found guilty last month of carrying out the April 15, 2013 bombings that killed three people and wounded 264 in one of the deadliest attacks in the US since 9/11.
The immigrant of Chechen descent was convicted on all 30 counts related to the bombings at the Boston Marathon, and the subsequent murder of a police officer, a carjacking and a shootout while on the run.
Tsarnaev's convictions leave the jury only two sentencing options under federal law: the death penalty or life without parole.
"His actions have earned him a sentence of death," assistant US attorney Steve Mellin told the jury in the government's closing statement as Tsarnaev sat immobile, staring at the table in front of him.
Mellin quoted from a bloodied message that Tsarnaev wrote to justify the attacks over America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan before he was arrested, in a parked boat, four days after the attacks.
"No remorse, no apology. Those are the words of a terrorist convinced he has done the right thing. He felt justified in killing, maiming and seriously injuring innocent men, women and children," Mellin said.
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