outside the courthouse waiting to go in. dzhokhar tsarnaev s lawyers are just walking past me. they too, have to check in in order to get into the courtroom. we re waiting for the prosecutors to come down. we got word just a couple moments ago the jury has been deliberating for about 14 1/2 hours. it s a little longer than the verdict that was returned for timothy mcveigh. that jury took about 11 hours. this is about 14 1/2 hours. everybody was sort of waiting around to figure out specifically when this might happen. they sent out two notes yesterday. right now we are waiting for everybody to get back in court. there are a couple of spectators brooke who have been outside this court who have been inside the court, actually in support of dzhokhar tsarnaev. one young lady. she s standing there, at one point put her hands together in prayer. we are waiting, and we should know within the next couple of
okay. paul we re looking at i believe these are live pictures. correct me if i m wrong. outside the federal courthouse here you can see clearly a police presence anticipating whatever this verdict will be. members of the media, even probably some passers by. so many people invested in what will happen the fate of this younger dzhokhar tsarnaev. a couple notes just passed on to me. first, i ve been told the public is now being allowed inside this courthouse. microphones are being tested. apparently the defense attorneys are already inside. the prosecution is seen walking in. so just a little bit of color as we re anticipating this verdict being read and many many eyes and ears waiting to hear the fate of dzhokhar tsarnaev. will this jury decide to put him to death or will he be locked away in presumably this super max prison in florence colorado barely even seeing daylight for the rest of his life? paul when the verdict is being
if there is even one holdout who doesn t believe that dzhokhar tsarnaev should be put to death, he won t be. that s correct. you know brooke it s even more complicated than that. there were i believe, 17 counts which the death penalty would attach to. even if the jury on let s say, hypothetically 16 of those counts thought no death penalty but all 12 agreed on only one count, the death penalty would be administered and would be appropriate in terms of the jury verdict. so that s the way it works. but in deliberations like this you have what s called, first of all, a death qualified jury. that means anybody who agreed to sit on this jury has said that given the right set of facts, they could go along with and impose the death penalty. in many cases, people who are at least in theory and philosophically opposed to the
necessary, but now the penalty portion, death or life that is really many say, the culmination of all of this. everyone is just at the enldge of their seats to see what this jury has determined. i think it s important to remind everyone it was just about a month or so ago the family of the youngest victim martin richard, they wrote this opinion piece in the boston globe essentially saying they don t want him to die. the reasoning is because they don t want to be emotionally dragged along for years and years assuming of course there would be appeals processes. so this family made it very clear that they didn t want dzhokhar tsarnaev to be put to
there on boyleston street. to know that three people were killed and then the fourth that police officer at m.i.t. and to hear their testimony, you know, day after day, week after week there inside that federal courthouse, but then you have to juxtapose that with what the defense has said especially with this nun who took to the stand who had met with dzhokhar tsarnaev who had said that, you know at least she believed in meeting with him a couple times that he showed remorse. i don t know if the people in the courtroom felt he showed remorse or the people who experienced the atrocities on that street two years ago, but how do you think that the defense closing arguments, that he was the younger brother, not the older, the leeldader here. how did all of that potentially work into these jurors minds? you raise an interesting issue about the testimony from the nun. she became famous from that movie dead man walking. of course she s somebody who