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Massachusetts to charge Tsarnaev with murder

Sunday, 12 July 2015 2:19 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 12 July 2015 2:34 AM ]

This handout image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, shown to jurors on March 18, 2015 in Boston. (AFP file photo)

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, will still face state murder charges in the death of a Massachusetts of Institute of Technology police officer, despite the fact that he is already on death row inside a federal prison, a prosecutor says.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said on Saturday she would bring charges against Tsarnaev for killing MIT police officer Sean Collier and for other crimes in the aftermath of the 2013 bombing, the Boston Globe reported.

Ryan told the newspaper that a guilty verdict in Massachusetts could keep the 21-year-old in jail if he successfully appeals his federal convictions.

"When you come into Middlesex County and execute a police officer in the performance of his duties and assault other officers attempting to effect his capture, it is appropriate you should come back to Middlesex County to stand trial for that offense," Ryan said in a statement.

Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, told a federal court in Boston last month that he was sorry for those he killed in the attack.

“I would like to now apologize to the victims, to the survivors,” he told the court shortly before being formally sentenced to death for the bombing, which many analysts say was an obvious false-flag operation.

American scholars, such as Dr. Kevin Barrett, say photographs taken at the scene show that Craft International paramilitary forces carried out the Boston Marathon bombing, while the Tsarnaev brothers were innocent patsies.

Dzhokhar was sentenced to death by a US jury on May 15 for helping his elder brother Tamerlan carry out the Boston Marathon attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others.

The 12-member federal jury unanimously agreed to put him on death row following 14 hours of deliberations over three days. He was previously convicted on April 8, 2015.

Tamerlan, 26, was killed on April 19, 2013 in a shootout with police in Watertown, Massachusetts.

American scholar James Henry Fetzer says Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were the “patsies” of the Obama administration and that Dzhokhar’s conviction and death sentence over the Boston bombing is a “huge scam”.

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