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Manner. he intentionally killed and attempted to kill more than one person. and then this is the little child, killed martin richard, who was particularly vulnerable due to youth. those are the statutories. i want to go through the nonstatutory. we have aggravators. we have a long list to consider. >> he suggested others would be justified in committing acts of violence and terror against the united states. that he caused injury, harm and loss to crystal campbell, martin richard, lindsey liu and officer sean collier, he targeted the boston marathon with men, women and children and demonstrated...

He would not have committed these crimes but for his older brother tamerlan and that teachers knew him as hard-working, respectful and kind and considerate. high school and college friends knew him as thoughtful, caring, respectful. so i said slam dunk before. if they have to decide on these, they even get an easier standard to decide these, don't they? >> they really do. let's talk about a couple things. so glad you're doing this. it really brings us into that jury room in a manner of speaking to know what they're doing. i wish it was as easy as them checking boxes on both sides and saying, y...

Judge. are you surprised at all by this ruling? >> no. you mean that she said -- no possibility absolutely not. even arias' team did not believe they could get that. what they're hoping of course is that there will be an appeal. i know they'll file an appeal and that the whole thing will be thrown out. no i don't think this was a surprise today at all. the real surprise, there were two times where this jury was deadlocked on life or death. >> it is so interesting because the heinousness of this crime. >> exactly. >> when you think about what kind of crime you'd have to do to be actually eligib...

I highly encourage viewers to read it in the statutes. as we go through it as americans, go and read what the aggravators and mitigators are. the standards were met. it's now the resonability of these 12 people. >> ashleigh banfield appreciate it. maj sure to catch ashleyighashleigh. karen broussard and her husband ron are survivors. he severed an artery, she was left with fragments in her ankle. last hour i spoke with one of the men who saved ron, about whether tsarnaev's life should be spared. >> i think life is a precious thing. letting him continue to have life even in a prison cell can ...

And if this community very much is opposed to death penalty, why go through this? why was it necessary to go through this? >> we went yesterday through the mitigators and aggravators, reasons for why he would qualify for the death penalty and why he would not. you're very familiar with them. does he, by the letter of law, qualify for being put to death? >> that's a complicated question. there are the aggravating factors and essentially ones the government has shown over the past 20 days of trial. the nature of the crime, horrendous nature of crime, number of victims, extent to which the crime ...