Defense Rests in Penalty Phase of Boston Bombing Trial

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother.   The defense team called more than 40 witnesses during the penalty phase of his trial in the hope of convincing the jury that Tsarnaev's late older brother was the mastermind of the plot and that Tsarnaev deserves life in prison...

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