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Lawyers seeking to spare Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty will delve deeper into his older brother's Islamist militant beliefs in court on Wednesday in an effort to cast him as the mastermind of the 2013 attacks. The 21-year old ethnic Chechen was found guilty earlier this month of killing three people and injuring 264 in the April 15, 2013 attack, the worst on U.S. soil since September 2001, but jurors must now decide whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be put to death or spend life in prison. Defense lawyers have argued that Tsarnaev should be spared capital punishment because he was a pawn in a scheme to attack the world-renowned marathon that was led by his older brother Tamerlan, 26, who was killed days later in a shootout with police.
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