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Jury decides on death sentence for Dzokhar Tsarnaev in 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. 

Previous story below: BOSTON (Reuters) – The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Friday reached a verdict on whether or not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of the attack, should be sentenced to death or to life in prison, court officials said.

The decision, reached during the jury’s third day of deliberations, will be read out in court later on Friday.

Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic C

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628x471.jpgThe surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.
Pictured: This Dec. 5, 2011 file photo shows the Devens Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Devens, Mass. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday, April 26, 2013, that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, charged in the Boston Marathon bombing April 15, 2013, had been moved from a Boston hospital to the federal medical center at Devens, abo
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Unable to speak, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been communicating with authorities in writing, a senior federal official briefed on the investigation told CNN Monday.
Investigators have been questioning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev since Sunday, according to a second source -- a senior law enforcement official.
Neither source would say what, if anything, Tsarnaev has been telling investigators about his alleged role in the bombing that killed three and wounded more than 170
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The London Marathon comes six days after bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Less than a week after bombs exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, those taking part at the London Marathon were refusing to let fear cast a shadow over Sunday's race.
On a chilly, but entirely clear, spring morning in the Blackheath area of the capital city's south-east corridor, thousands of runners and their supporters observed a 30-second silence in a show of respect to the t
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People leave the bleachers at the finish line after the explosion. ( David L Ryan/Globe Staff )
The Boston Marathon has always had room for not just the elite runners, but the everyday strivers -- and the oddballs. That's part of its charm.
The four young guys had played this game in other years. You could tell. They scoped out a place maybe 10 feet away from Doyle and me Monday afternoon on the grass median on Commonwealth Avenue, right near the beginning of Heartbreak Hill in Newton, and
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