Boston bombing jury to begin first full day of deliberations

By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - The jury weighing whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack on Thursday begins its first full day of deliberations on his fate. The same 12 people, who last month found the 21-year-old guilty of killing three people and wounding 264 others at the race's crowded finish line, deliberated for about an hour on Wednesday afternoon after prosecutors and defense lawyers made their closing arguments. "The importance of your deliberations should be obvious," U.S. District Judge George O'Toole said in his instructions to jurors, who can only sentence Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection or life in prison without possibility of release.

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