Over two years after planting bombs that would kill 3 people and injure 264 others, 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.
The Boston Marathon bombings led to an intense manhunt, culminating in Tsarnaev’s arrest.
U.S District Judge George O’Toole passed the sentencing yesterday, weeks after Tsarnaev had been found guilty of committing the 2013 atrocity.
Judge O’Toole told the court: “Whenever your name is mentioned what will be remembered is the evil you have done.
"What will be remembered is that you murdered and maimed innocent people, you did it intentionally."
He then said: "I sentence you to death by execution."
Before hearing his sentence, Tsarnaev told the court in Boston: “I ask forgiveness of Allah and to his creation.
"I would like to thank the jury, the court. I would like to now apologise to the victims, to the survivors"
"Immediately after the bombing which I am guilty of...I learned their faces, their names.
I am sorry for the lives that I've taken, the suffering that I've caused and the damage that I've done, irreparable damage"
"I pray to Allah to put his mercy upon the deceased, the injured.
"I ask Allah to have mercy upon me, my brother, my family."
Survivors wept in court as they heard Tsarnaev speak, but many were unimpressed with his ‘insincere’ apology.
Lynn Julian- who suffered a severe brain injury following the blasts- said: "After we heard it, we wished he hadn't [spoken] because the things he had to say were shocking.
"I regret ever wanting to hear him speak, because he showed no remorse, no regret.
"He threw in an apology to the survivors that seemed insincere.”