- Jurors reached a verdict Friday on whether to apply death penalty
- Tsarnaev is awaiting sentence for the 30 crimes he was convicted of in April
- 17 of the sentences are eligible for the death penalty
- If spared the death penalty, Tsarnaev will get life in prison without parole
Facing death: Jurors have decided whether or not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be killed
The jury deliberating the fate of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has reached a verdict.
The jury - seven women and five men - reached their a decision Friday after 14 hours of deliberations.
Tsarnaev was convicted last month of all 30 federal charges against him, 17 of which carried the possibility of the death penalty.
It has been down to the jury to decide whether or not to enact capital punishment.
Tsarnaev's defense lawyers have said he deserved life in prison instead.
Families of bombing victims and emergency service personnel who helped deal with the aftermath of the terror attack packed the courtroom to hear the verdict.
When Tsarnaev entered he was said to appear emotionless - even relaxed - much like at every other phase of the trial.
The 2013 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260 others.
Tsarnaev killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer days later.
The defense sought to save Tsarnaev's life by pinning most of the blame on his radicalized older brother.
Prosecutors portrayed Tsarnaev as an equal partner in the attack and so heartless he placed a bomb behind children, killing an 8-year-old boy.
During the trial, the jury saw gruesome, sometimes graphic videos of the explosions and their bloody aftermath, and heard from some of the 18 people who lost limbs in the bombing, as well as friends and family of the four people killed by the Tsarnaevs.
Eight-year-old Martin Richard, 23-year-old Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu and 29-year-old restaurant managed Krystle Campbell died in the bombing.
Defiant: Tsarnaev is pictured above in a jail cell shortly after being arrested making an obscene gesture at a camera. He has been largely emotionless throughout the trial, even as his victims testified
All his fault? Tsarnaev's defense have argued that his older brother, Tamerlan, radicalized him and should bear most of the responsibility for the deadly terror attacks in 2013
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