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Boston bomber apologises, sentenced to death

– ‘He chose hate’ –

Bill Richard, the father of the youngest victim, eight-year-old Martin, said he would have preferred Tsarnaev receive a life sentence but said the attacks were “all on him.”

Tsarnaev, Richard said, could have stopped his brother, changed his mind and “walked away with a minimal sense of humanity.”

“He chose hate. He chose destruction. He chose death,” Richard said. “We choose love. We choose kindness. We choose peace. That is what makes us different.”

The judge told Tsarnaev that his name would only ever be remembered for the horrors that he inflicted.

The death penalty verdict was a stinging defeat for the defence, who argued that Tsarnaev was a “lost kid” who had been manipulated by his older brother, Tamerlan.

Tamerlan was shot dead on the run before Tsarnaev was arrested.

He was found, injured, in a grounded boat on which he had scrawled a bloody message defending the attacks as a means to avenge US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The death sentence is possible only under federal law. The state of Massachusetts outlawed capital punishment in 1947 and opinion polls had suggested residents favoured a life sentence for Tsarnaev.

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