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Lawyers for the convicted Boston Marathon bomber prepared to call fresh witnesses on Tuesday as they argue that a federal jury should sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to life in prison, rather than death, for his role in the deadly 2013 attack. Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty last month of killing three people and injuring 264 others with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three days later as Tsarnaev and his older brother prepared to flee Boston. Defense lawyers, who at the trial's opening in March conceded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had committed all the crimes of which he was accused, contend that 26-year-old Tamerlan was the driving force behind the bombing, with his younger brother coming along out of a sense of sibling loyalty.
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