BOSTON;
When the trial of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins,
Liz Norden plans to stop working altogether.With two sons maimed
in the blast the 52-year old American say the marathon destroyed her
life,and she won't miss the proceedings.
On the morning of the bombing,her sons JP,who was 33 at that time
and Paul 31 were cheering on a friend near the marathon finsh line.
Then the twin bombs exploded 12 second apart,killing 3 people and
wounding 264 more including Paul and JP.
JP arrived in the hospital clinically dead.Paul was in a coma for several
days,They were burned on more than 50 percent of their bodies,missing
eyelashes and eyebrows and with burst eardrums,their mother said.
Tsarnaev faces the death penalty if convicted over the attack.
He is accused of carrying out the attacks with his brother,Tamerlan.
who was killed in a shootout with police as the pair went on the
run in the days immediately after the attacks.Dzhokhar has pleaded
not guilty to 30 charges ,which include conspiracy to use a weapon
of mass destruction resulting in death and bombing a public place
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His main lawyer ,Judy Clarke,is a renowned specialist on the death
penalty who has saved several convicts from execution by encouraging
them to plead guilty to lesser charge than those originally put forward.
The trial,expected to last three months . AFP
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