Family members of the Boston Marathon bombing victims read impact statements Wednesday at the convicted bomber’s sentencing hearing.
The Boston Globe noted that the parents of Krystle Campbell, 29, and Martin Richard, 8, gave powerful statements addressing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about the despicable acts he and his brother, Tamerlan, committed.
“I don’t know what to say to you,’’ Kyrstle’s mother Patricia Campbell said. “What you did to my daughter was disgusting.’’
Campbell’s father also directly addressed Tsarnaev, who prosecutors said helped his older sibling go through with the terrorist-inspired act.
“You failed as a soldier,’’ Bill Campbell told him.
Bill and Denise Richard spoke about Tsarnaev’s choice to participate in the bombing.
“He chose to do nothing, to prevent all of this from happening. He chose hate. He chose destruction. He chose death,’’ they said in a joint statement.
In April, a jury found the 21-year-old Tsarnaev guilty of the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Last month, those same jurors decided that he would receive the death penalty. Wednesday was the formal sentencing hearing.
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