Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is “America’s worst nightmare” and deserves to die for one of the bloodiest attacks on US soil since 9/11, his trial heard on Tuesday.
The court was shown a never-before seen photograph of Tsarnaev, dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit flipping his middle finger at a surveillance camera in a cell before his first arraignment.
“This is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged,” said assistant US attorney Nadine Pellegrini in her opening statement at the penalty stage of his trial.
The former student was convicted earlier this month on all 30 counts related to the April 15, 2013 bombings, the murder of a police officer, a carjacking and a shootout.
The 21-year-old of part Chechen descent who moved to America with his family aged eight took US nationality a year before the deadly 2013 attacks, which killed three and wounded 264 more.