Nearly two years since the attack on the Boston Marathon, the trial for suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got underway Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Boston. Federal prosecutor William Weinreb says that both Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan who dies in a gun battle days after the bombing, were terrorists whose mission was to maim and kill.
Tsarnaev faces 30 charges including the use of a weapon of mass destruction. According to Boston’s WBUR, 17 of these charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.
Follow the trial with a live blog from the Boston Globe:
