Massachusetts prosecutor to charge bomber Tsarnaev with murder: Boston Globe

(Reuters) - A Massachusetts district attorney plans to bring state murder charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been sentenced to death in a federal trial for launching a deadly bomb attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon, the Boston Globe reported on Saturday. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said she would charge Tsarnaev with murdering MIT police officer Sean Collier and for other crimes in the aftermath of the marathon attacks, the paper said. Ryan said a guilty verdict in Massachusetts could keep Tsarnaev in prison if he successfully appeals his federal convictions, the Globe reported.

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