LIEU LU LINGZI.
WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE BEGINNING
WITH SHELLEY WALCOTT.
SHELLEY: THIS DECISION SETS THE
STAGE FOR WHAT WILL BE THE
NATION'S FIRST EXECUTION OF A
TERRORIST POST 9/11.
THE PROSECUTION TODAY SAYING
THEY FEEL LIKE JUSTICE WAS DONE.
THE PROSECUTION TEAM APPEARED
BEFORE CAMERAS TODAY TO THANK
THE JURY FOR THEIR SERVICE.
THEY HAVE SAT THROUGH MONTHS
OF GRUELING AND OFTENTIMES
HEARTWRENCHING TESTIMONY AND
EVIDENCE.
SHELLEY: THE JURY CAME BACK
UNANIMOUSLY ON SIX COUNTS THAT
CARRY THE DEATH PENALTY AS
PUNISHMENT INCLUDING USE OF A
WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND
BOMBING OF A PUBLIC PLACE.
OBSERVERS IN THE COURTROOM SAY
TSARNAEV APPEARED EMOTIONLESS
AND IMPASSIVE AS THE VERDICT WAS
READ.
SCRATCHING THE BACK OF HIS HEAD
AS IF HE WAS DISTRACTED.
EVENTUALLY LOOKING AT THE JURY
BOX AS THE CLERK POLLED EACH ONE
INDIVIDUALLY.
TODAY'S SENTENCE CAME DOWN
EXACTLY 25 MONTHS AFTER THE
APRIL 15, 2013 BOMBING.
BEFORE THEY COULD DECIDE ON
TSARNAEV'S GUILT, JURORS HAD TO
WADE THROUGH A COMPLICATED
24-PAGE VERDICT SLIP.
ON IT THEY HAD TO WEIGH THE
AGGRAVATING FACTORS THAT WOULD
JUSTIFY HIS DEATH AS WELL AS THE
MITIGATING FACTORS PRESENTED BY
THE DEFENSE THAT WOULD ARGUE FOR
HIM TO LIVE.
AFTER TODAY'S PREAG, TSARNAEV
WAS LED OUT OF THE COURTROOM,
HANDS IN HIS POCKETS, THE
PROSECUTION TEAM SAYING THEY
FELT JUSTICE WAS DONE.
ONE THING THE PEOPLE NEED TO
KNOW IS THAT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
PARTNERS WHO SHOW UP TO WORK
EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR THE VICTIMS
WHO RELY ON US TO BRING THESE
PEOPLE TO JUSTICE.
SHELLEY: DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV HAS
BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY
LETHAL INJECTION, BUT THIS CASE
IS EXPECTED TO GO THROUGH YEARS
OF APPEALS.
I'M SHELLEY WALCOTT, WMUR NEWS
9.
JENNIFER: A WOMAN FROM
MANCHESTER WHO SUFFERED SHRAPNEL
WOUNDS WHEN THE BOMBS WENT OFF
SAYS SHE RESPECTS THE JURY'S
DECISION.
DENISE SPINARD IS NOT IN BOSTON
TODAY, BUT SAYS WHAT THE JURY
HAD TO SEE AND HEAR TO MAKE ITS
DECISION WAS EXTREMELY
DIFFICULT.
MIKE CRONIN CONTINUES OUR TEAM
COVERAGE NOW WITH REACTION FROM
HER AND OTHER SURVIVORS.
REPORTER: THOSE SURVIVORS
THANKED JURORS TODAY FOR
LISTENING THROUGH THE TRIAL AND
LISTENING THROUGH SOME GRUELING
TESTIFY.
SOME EVEN SAID WHAT THE JURY
WENT THROUGH WAS MORE DIFFICULT
THAN THE EXPERIENCES OF SOME
VICTIMS.
FAMILIES OF BOSTON MARATHON
BOMBING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
ARE REACTING TO TODAY'S DEATH
SENTENCE.
KAREN BRASSARD OF EPSOM WHO WAS
INJURED SAYS TODAY FEELS
DIFFERENT FROM LAST MONTH'S
GUILTY VERDICT.
I KNOW THERE'S STILL A LONG
ROAD AHEAD, THERE WILL BE MANY
MANY MORE DATES AHEAD.
BUT RIGHT NOW IT FEELS LIKE WE
CAN TAKE A BREATH.
REPORTER: SHE SAYS THE DEATH
SENTENCE IS A JUST PUNISHMENT.
THERE IS NOTHING HAPPY ABOUT
HAVING TO TAKE SOMEBODY'S LIFE.
I'M SATISFIED.
I'M GRATEFUL THAT THEY CAME TO
THAT CONCLUSION, BECAUSE FOR ME
I THINK IT WAS THE JUST
CONCLUSION.
REPORTER: DENISE SPIN ARD OF
MANCHESTER WHO WAS A SPECTATOR,
A PIECE OF SHRAPNEL LODGED IN
HER SIDE.
LAST MONTH SHE RAN AND FINISHED
THE MARATHON.
I THINK I WAS A BIT
SURPRISED, BUT FROM THE
BEGINNING I WAS BEHIND WHATEVER
THE JURY DECIDED.
SHE SAYS SHE'S PUT WHAT
HAPPENED TO HER IN THE PAST, BUT
FOR OTHER SURVIVORS THE DEATH
PENALTY COULD MEANS YEARS OF
APPEALS PREVENTING THEM FROM
MOVING ON.
I THINK WITH THE DEATH
PENALTY IT COULD MAKE IT LONGER
FOR THEM.
WHERE IF IT WAS LIFE IT WAS
DONE.
SIDNEY CORCORAN WHO HAS TIES
TO NASHUA, SAYING MY MOTHER AND
I THINK THAT NOW HE WILL GO AWAY
AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE ON.
JUSTICE, IN HIS OWN WORDS, AN
EYE FOR AN EYE.
MANY OF THE VICTIMS THANKED THE
JURY FOR ENDURING THE LONG
TRIAL.
THEY HAD TO LIVE THROUGH
EVERYBODY'S ORDEAL, LISTENING TO
ALL THE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
FAMILIES TALK, AND I WAS HIT
WITH SHRAPNEL.
THEY ALMOST FELT AND EXPERIENCED
THE ENTIRE THING.
REPORTER: WHETHER VICTIMS
FAMILIES OR SURVIVORS WANTED THE
DEATH PENALTY OR NOT, MANY SAY
THEY HOPE THIS WILL HELP THEM TO