Boston bomber's lawyers press case for prison, not death

Jurors deciding the fate of convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will hear from more witnesses on Thursday picked by defense attorneys pressing their case the 21-year old should be spared execution because he was influenced by his radicalized older brother. Tsarnaev was convicted last month of joining his now-deceased brother Tamerlan in bombing the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, killing 3 people and injuring 264, many of whom had limbs ripped off in the blasts. A long-time family friend, Elmirza Khozhugov, testified on Wednesday that Tsarnaev "would always go along" with whatever the older brother, Tamerlan, suggested and that Tamerlan became deeply interested in religion, politics and conspiracy theories in the years before the attack.

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