BOSTON (AP) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) is now detained in the highest-security prison in the country.
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A spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said then Tsarnaev eventually will be moved to a Terre Haute, Indiana, prison where federal death row inmates are executed. The “Supermax” penitentiary is home to several of the most unsafe criminals in the country.
The two bombings by Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, near the marathon’s finish line on April 15, 2013, killed three people and wounded more than 260. The facility houses some of the nation’s most notorious convicts, including Zacarias Moussaoui, who helped plan the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, and Richard Reid, known as the Shoe Bomber.
Tsarnaev will remain in the seven-by-12-foot cell as he appeals the death sentence for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers fought unsuccessfully to move his trial out of Massachusetts, where they argued that there was too much of an emotional impact to find truly impartial jurors. ‘I regret ever wanting him to speak…
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That jury also recommended the death penalty, and a federal judge sentenced him to death.
