Tsarnaev Trial

A judge has rejected a motion by The Boston Globe to publicly release the names of jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Judge George O'Toole Jr.'s ruling Monday came more than three months after a federal jury convicted DzhokharTsarnaev in the deadly 2013 attack and voted in favor of the death penalty...

(Associated Press) - Boston police say they spent nearly $750,000 on officer overtime during the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Police officials said Thursday that officers worked more than 13,000 hours of overtime helping secure the federal courthouse from January through May during the trial and on June 24 when Tsarnaev was sentenced to death...

(Associated Press) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be formally sentenced to death on June 24. U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. set the date on Thursday. A jury determined earlier this month that Tsarnaev should get the death penalty in the 2013 attack...

The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial is done for the day after deliberating for about 50 minutes.  The jury got the case Wednesday afternoon after final instructions from a federal judge. The panel weighing the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev must decide whether to sentence him to death or life in prison for the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260 others...

Federal prosecutors have rested their case in the penalty phase of the federal trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The prosecution rested Thursday afternoon after calling a man who lost a leg in the bombing. They will get a chance for rebuttal after the defense presents its case...

Death penalty opponents are renewing their calls for mercy as the federal trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev enters the penalty phase. More than a dozen protesters held signs outside the courthouse Tuesday. Sister Jane Morrissey, of the Sisters of St...

The guilt phase of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial was considered a slam dunk for prosecutors, especially after his lawyer admitted he participated in the deadly 2013 attack. But the outcome of the second phase of the trial is more difficult to predict...

(Associated Press) - Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley and fellow Massachusetts Roman Catholic bishops say it would be against the church's teaching to apply the death penalty to Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev . The statement Monday said Tsarnaev, ``will never again have the ability to cause harm...

The defense has rested its case in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev's lawyers ended their case Tuesday after calling just four witnesses. The trial was continued till Monday when closing statements will be presented...

A note written by Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he hid inside a boat contained themes of global jihad similar to those found in extremist materials on his computer, a terrorism expert testified Monday at his federal death penalty trial...