Boston Bomber: "I pray to Allah to bestow his mercy upon the deceased"

A US federal judge formally sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death at an emotionally-charged court hearing in which the 21-year-old former student apologized to his victims. Judge George O'Toole officially imposed the death sentence, which had been reached unanimously by the 12-person jury on May 15. He began by delivering his remarks in the name of Allah and finished by asking for God's forgiveness. "I pray to Allah to bestow his mercy upon the deceased," he said. "I ask Allah to have mercy upon me, upon my brother, upon my family." Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan carried out the double bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line, one of the deadliest attacks on US soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.