Jury selection for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to begin Monday.
Ahead of the selection process in South Boston, the parents of Tsarnaev told ABC News that they believe their son will be put to death because Americans want to “harm” him.
“The Americans are going to harm my second son the same way they did to my oldest son,” Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspect said. “We already know what’s going to happen.”
On April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast from two pressure cookers killed three people and injured more than 260 others. The Tsarnaev brothers are believed to have planted and detonated the explosives.
In the days following the bombing, the eldest brother Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police. A manhunt then ensued in and around Boston for the surviving brother before he was captured and taken into custody.
The Associated Press noted that several emergency responders will testify in the upcoming trial in which if found guilty, jurors will decide if the 21-year-old Tsarnaev should get the death penalty.