stop a death sentence in this case. that in one way, looks like an 11-3 verdict in favor of the prosecution, but if one of them says i do not support a verdict of death, that s enough to sentence him to life in prison. here s what i m wondering, given the point you just made. i ve never been inside of jury deliberation room, especially when death is potentially on the table, but if you do have on one particular point one holdout, do the other jurors try to convince actively convince that one holdout to change his or her mind? how does that happen? almost always that is the case. we just had a very high-profile case here in new york. the murder of young etan patz many many years ago who was a child who was abducted and disappeared over 30 years ago.
perception and media. but look the only people that matter are people that are on that jury. while the majority of people in boston and the majority of massachusetts residents do not believe in the death penalty and also don t believe in the death penalty for this case, there are a lot of us myself included i think it s a worse punishment to send him away for life without the possibility of parole but it only matters what those jurors are going say. right now they re going question by question through a 24-page verdict sheet where they re answering yes. you ve said they answered yes to all of them so far. they ve done age. they re going to get to the gateway. once they ve established intent we re going to look at mitigating factors. mel, stand by. my mel was talking about the super max in florence colorado. if in fact he s not put to
death penalty, and it s only been imposed by the federal government three times since 1988. all right. paul callan, thank you very much. thanks to everyone who has jumped in as part of this breaking news coverage as we have learned in the last hour that the convicted terrorist dzhokhar tsarnaev will be put to death. this has been a case in which the jury deliberated for 14.5 hours. this was day three, and i am sure we will hear in the ensuing hour yous. make sure you stay here on cnn for special coverage of the reaction to death, death here for a man a convicted terrorist. before i let you go we want to continue hearing from the survivor community in the city of boston. here is one more tweet from sydney corcoran suffered shrad natural moonds shrapnel wounds. her mother lost both her legs.
were looking at the clerk, who was reading out the verdict forum and their findings in the case. one young man sat in the front row. he was sort of looking around the courtroom, looking back at the media section at officials packing the pews there. and but otherwise, it was only when tsarnaev s lawyers asked the jurors to be polled that the jury stood and when asked if that was their verdict, they seemed to look in dzhokhar tsarnaev s direction, each of them saying yes, yes, yes, yes. very quiet. very somber. i did notice that at least four were actually dregsssed in black. not something i had noticed previously. but it just even the victims. some of them dabbed tears from their eyes. whether it was a sense of release, whether, that this was over. it just it s one of those things where, you know your
all these unanimous verdicts in favor of aggravating factors, that in no way requires the defense to find the jury to find him guilty. it allows the jury to find him guilty but it doesn t require them. so the ultimate question we still have to hear the answer for. let me jump in jeff toobin. i want you to react to something just passed along to me. of these seven female and seven male jurors three of them only three of them believe that dzhokhar tsarnaev acted under the influence of his older brother. how do you read that? well that was the lynch pin of the defense to the extent there was a defense in this case which was his brother led him, his brother was the brains of this operation, his brother manipulated the younger, more vulnerable dzhokhar tsarnaev. but remember you say it s only three. it only takes one of them to