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Northrop grumman. is dzhokhar tsarnaev an indiscriminate killer or a misguided teen? that question is now in the hands of the jury. closing arguments wrapped up this afternoon as the judge told the jury we are ready for you to commence deliberations. the 12-member jury will decide whether the convicted boston bomber lives or dies. for the prosecution, the answer is clear and it comes from tsarnaev himself, written in his hand on a boat stained with his blood. now i don't like killing innocent people but in this case, it is allowed because america needs to be punished. but the defense contend...

In a legal strategy is not a desire to fight a losing battle right, over facts that have been so clearly shown when you look at surveillance and the shutout and the information accumulated, but, thomas, what the defense did was try to use the duration of the trial to make the kind of arguments that may also help them in that second stage with regard to punishment. >> and meanwhile we have the 30 different counts for this jury to come throw, it will only take one out of the 17 capital counts for them to move on to the penalty phase, correct? >> that is correct. the 17 capital counts basically m...

Of a verdict. we have heard about 25 minutes ago that the jury has reconvened with a verdict in the dzokhar tsarnaev case. they said a verdict will be at 1:45 and we are still awaiting for the players to make it to the courtroom. and over 30 different counts 17 capital counts that will then if one comes back as guilty will move on to the penalty phase and that is the definition of whether or not dzokhar sarn receive -- dzokhar tsarnaev could be convicted and leveled with the death penalty otherwise he will spent the rest of his young life behind bars. he is 21 years old. and everybody is talki...

Charging document the jury had to take with them and right now as i understand it they are reading the verdict. we'll have that for everybody here in just a moment. but again, the fact that they spent 11 hours behind closed doors, separated by two different days seven hours of deliberation yesterday four hours of deliberation today before we got word that they would be becoming back with the announcement and we wait to see what that verdict is. they have 30 different charges to consider. 17 of which were capital counts in the boston bombing massacre. count one guilty we are hearing. count one ...

A person under the age of 16 years old for michaela. i've been told the mood in the courtroom, you can only imagine. extremely tense as everybody's waiting for the next set of verdicts. >> shepard: we'll go back to laura. in the meantime, the stage is set. important matters have been reached. guilt on the capital counts, guilty on count 5, capital felony, intent to cause the death of a person under 16. we're about to run the table. if it doesn't, i'll let he know where that happens. next is october 14th and the possibility we're hear from dr. petit. >> october 24th is the date. the doctor's go...