Boston bombs

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Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing people and leaving hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Pressure-Cooker Bombs At approximately that afternoon, with more than 5, runners still in the race, two pressure-cooker bombs—packed with shrapnel and hidden in backpacks among crowds of marathon-watchers—exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street.

Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were blamed for the bombing. Tamerlan apparently died while in police custody. There were many anomalies about the bombing event, the getaway crimes allegedly associated with the brothers, and the capture of Tamerlan. The entire city of Boston, including airport, was shut down while police went house to house searching for Dzhokhar, a wounded 19 year old. Troops with tanks occupied the city.

There was unethical intervention by US prosecutors with the Tsarnaev family. Borgard sustained hearing loss and a brain injury. Yet they and others affected by the attack that killed three people and wounded more disagree about whether convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be executed - a question the U.

Supreme Court will consider on Wednesday when the justices hear the U. But for me, I wanted it. Borgard, who also attended the trial, is against executions of anyone. The Supreme Court is set to hear the federal government's appeal of a lower court ruling overturning Tsarnaev's death sentence and requiring a new trial to determine whether he should get life in prison instead.

Two ethnic Chechen brothers carried out one of the most shocking attacks on U. Tsarnaev, who is 28 now and was 19 at the time, and his older brother Tamerlan detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon's finish line on April 15,