Boston, Mass. — (WHDH) The family of the youngest victim of the marathon bombing, Martin Richard, said they support taking the death penalty off the table for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Tsarnaev was convicted of the bombings at the finish line that killed martin and two others.
The penalty phase is scheduled to begin this coming Tuesday and they’ll decide death or life.
In an op-ed piece released by the Boston Globe, the Richard family wrote about the pain Tsarnaev caused, but say they’d support the death penalty being taken off the table in exchange for a life behind bars without parole dropping all appeals.
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