TerrorismBoston Bomber ordered to pay $101 million to victims
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 22, the Boston Marathon bomber, has been ordered to pay more than $101 million to his victims. In June, Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bomb attack. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 22, the Boston Marathon bomber, has been ordered to pay more than $101 million to his victims.
In June, Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bomb attack. The attack killed three people and injured more than 260. Tsarnaev carried out the attack with his brother Tamerlan, who died as police were closing in on him.
The Boston Globe reports that at a hearing Friday, the judge rejected Tsarnaev’s request for a retrial. Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that he had not received a fair trial due to the publicity surrounding the case. The judge said that this was not a valid argument.
Judge George O’Toole said: “There is no reason to think that if the trial had been moved to another district, the local media in that district would not have given it attentive coverage.”
The Globe notes that the $101 million compensation “was based on a consultant’s report of the cost of the injuries suffered by victims and the financial toll the injuries will take on the rest of their lives.”
It is not expected that victims will ever see any of the money: “Tsarnaev will have no ability to pay the restitution while he remains in prison appealing a death sentence, making the order a symbolic gesture,” the Globe notes
