the jury set to decide how he will pay for killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. molly line is live in boston with more on what s ahead, molly. reporter: jenna, exactly, the prosecution and the defense have both rested their cases in the boston marathon bombing trial. the feds calling their final witness to the stand, famed death penalty opponent sister helen presean. she was permitted to visit dzhokhar tsarnaev in prison and testified that he expressed his feelings about what happened to the victims. telling her, no one deserves to suffer like they did, under defense requesting she confirms she heard pain in tsarnaev s voice and shared her perception that he was genuinely sorry for what he did. prosecutored called the warden of the super max prison where he will likely be sent if sentenced to life behind bars. john oliver heads up the prison facility in florence colorado where he says new inmates under special restrictions imposed by
there was no witness? dogs get treated better than this guy did. this looks like cold-blooded murder. hackers working for the russian government obtained access to the white house email system. they ve been targeting our infrastructure for a long time. we are in the peak of our air campaign. we ve expedited weapons deliveries, they cannot overrun yemen by force. a jury set to decide the fate of dzokhar tsarnaev. he faces 30 different counts 17 of those charges coming with a possible death sentence. announcer: this is new day, with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning, welcome to your new day, it is wednesday, april 8th 6:00 in the east michaela pereira is off, jb joins us. a lot of news for you, a south
i opt to talk about i want to talk about the boston marathon trial. the jury set to decide the fate of dzhokhar tsarnaev. 30 counts, 17 that carry life in prison or death. what this will come down to, do you think? many have observed that this skies about the penalty phase this case is about the penalty phase. whether or not the defendant will get the death penalty by the same jury. in that sense, many people with looking already beyond the liability phase because the defense has in many ways conceded the defendant s involvement. but this case is critically important, the defense has to be strategic, and they have been brilliantly strategic in building that case during the first liability phase. would be very inconsistent to argue someone else did this horrible deed, then when the defendant is convicted, argue to the jury, okay, well, he did it, but here s why he s a sensitive and impressionable young man.
boston. reporter: good morning. the courthouse is packed with members of the public wanting to see this for two years. they will give closeing argument arguments, 90 minutes for both sides and then a rebuttal period. and after that the jury gets their instructions and finally the jury set to deliberate. we heard from 96 different witnesses over the course of this trial. took about 16 day is in total. the defense putting up just four of those witnesses. the jury will have to consider 30 different charges for tsarnaev. if they find 1 of 17 charges which bear a possible death sentence they go into phase two and that is a reset in this trial and we then proceed again to opening statements and a number of witnesses called to deliver their testimony before the jury deliberates again on a sentence. the second part of this trial is the face the defense has been moved to focus on. they played the long game from the beginning.
sincerely, someone you shouldn t have messed with. and we have to go there this again because it took forever to get the trial going and get the jury set. they re going to say he was just under the spell of his older brother and it worked, remember the d.c. snipers, they said the 17-year-old didn t know what he was doing because he was brainwashed. so he just got life in prison. rebekah gregory said they re showing the jurors how it unfolded. for a lot of us in the media, but saw maybe the sanitized version of what unfolded that day. when you go through and look at the pictures it s horrifying. and rolling stone did a