May have been more impressive had you said the same thing two, three, four five six months after the Boston Marathon bombing and a chance to sit in the jail cell and reflect on what happened to your life. But to get it two years plus after this and then to not explain i think a lot of people are going to be upset he made no attempt to aexplain his actions. If you believe the Defense Strategy throughout the trial, was that the big brother hatched the plan and dragged the reluctant starDzhokhar Tsarvaev into this conspiracy and frustrated that he did not try to explain why he did what he did, even if it was on religious grounds at least make an attempt to explain to people why you did the unthinkable, place a bomb in a book bag behind a group of people including children one of whom martin richard, the 8yearold who died. Extraordinary awful stories of victims about how tough their lives have been past two years and one strikes me the most is a gentleman who was standing behind martin ric
Victims and survivors. If theres any legally doubt he said along with my brother. I am sorry for the lives that i have taken. Led federal courage zshau otoole says whenever your name is mentioned, what will be remembered is the evil you did. What will be when you murdered and maimed injury people. Spoke, spoke with quite a bit of an september and spoke quietly and slowly from the defense tampa bay. A lot of people to parse this through with beginning with National Correspondent debra jaric and saw him with his own ideas ideas and how he spawneded and appeared and he wlook looked a when he was arresting the court. One thing we do know it didnt sway the judge or any of the survivors or their families who were in that court listening intently to he was saying. He appeared wearing a dark suit gray button shirt, heavy accent of russian and arabic which is interesting because his wrestling friends said he didnt have an accent in high school. He did not look to some of the jurors who were the
Pelley this is our western edition. For two years, he revealed nothing except for a scribbled screed against america and an obscene gesture in a holding cell. But today, facing a sentence of death, Dzhokar Tsarnaev apologized for bombing the boston marathon. He and his brother killed three, injured hundreds, then later executed a young police officer. This was sentencing day, and don dahler was there. Reporter looking straight ahead at judge george otoole, Dzhokar Tsarnaev spoke in a halting voice without notes. He talked about the victims patience and dignity and what he called this horrendous thing he put them through. Tsarnaev asked allah for forgiveness. Survivor lynn julian was unwilling to give it. He threw in an apology to the survivors that seemed insincere and just thrown in because he was supposed to. Reporter earlier, bill richard, whose eightyearold son martin was killed and six yearold daughter lost a leg addressed the court. A procession of people who were at the marathon
Gene palmer posted 25,000 bail this morning and is due back in court today. One other note Officials Say he destroyed paintings given to him by richard matt. Keep in mind, chris,s the it is not allowed for Prison Guards to accept gifts from prisoners. Well get into all of this as the facts come out. Now to alyson in South Carolina this morning. Alyson . Reporter chris i want to tell you about the remarkable scene we saw at the statehouse behind me yesterday. It was 98 degrees and there was a heat index, meaning how hot it felt it was 106. And yet thousands of people came here. They stood in an hourlong line that snaked all the way around this building all the way around the block. They were people of all types, old, young, black, white, they were Standing Shoulder to shoulder. They were sharing umbrellas to shield themselves from the intensity. They were sharing bottled water. It was just a remarkable show of love and unity and respect for their friend and leader senator Clementa Pinck
Two escaped murderers on the run for 19 days and counting. A second employee is charged in connection with the prison break. Gene palmer is a prison guard accused of taking frozen meat with tools inside though inmates. Official say he allowed the men to the catwalk area that they later used to escape. Anderson cooper spoke to the District Attorney about the allegations. Theres some information that he allowed them to go in the back of the cells in the catwalk area and fix the breakers that were there. At this point in time the information we had they all have hot plates and it was to help the fix the breakers so they could use their hot plates to cook their food. So he knew they were going back behind the cells to the catwalk area . Correct. He actually took them behind there to do that. Were they alone there or with were they with him at all times . It is my understanding they were with gene palmer at the time. Do you have any indication why palmer chose not to put the hamburger meat