Tsarnaev convicted in Boston bombing, may face death sentence

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By Scott Malone, Elizabeth Barber and Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Dzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others, and the jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death. Tsarnaev, 21, is the surviving member of pair of ethnic Chechen brothers who planted the homemade pressure-cooker bombs that tore though the crowd at the famed race's finish line in one of the most shocking attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001. His lawyers opened Tsarnaev's federal trial in Boston a month ago by bluntly admitting "it was him" who planted one of the bombs on April 15, 2013 and three days later shot dead a police officer, kicking off a day of chaos in Boston.

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