Sentencing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is slated to return to a federal courtroom Wednesday morning to be officially sentenced to death for the April 15, 2013 terrorist attacks that shook the city.

3rd & 7 37yd

Stephanie Benz (at Forum during bombing) now speaking. #Tsarnaev sits quietly in his chair, rubbing his hands together as he listens

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:34:06 PM
Stephanie Benz, was at patio at Forum tracking friends. "I had never been so close to the finish line until that day."

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:34:11 PM
"My friend told me not to look around anymore. Don't look around. Just look at me."

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:35:46 PM
Her purse was covered in blood.
Had shrapnel wounds.
She still suffers physical pain and disability.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:38:02 PM
Benz suffered injuries to left hip/leg, chronic pain. Hard on her relationships: "People don't know how to be friends w/a bombing victim"

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:38:37 PM
"Friends don't know how to be friends with a bombing victim."
"I jump at loud noises."
Pain has become the norm.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:38:52 PM
"Friendships have changed dramatically because people don't know how to be friends with a bombing victim," Benz said.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:39:42 PM
Henry Borgard, with his service dog.
"Past two years have been hell."
hard to put all this into words.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:39:52 PM
Wanted to speak because 5 other voices have been silenced.
Was 21-year-old student, walking back to dorm from work.
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:40:46 PM
He saw Martin Richard, "the last thing before the second explosion."
Went home and was shaking as he tried to go to sleep.
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:42:06 PM
Nightmares continue to plague him.
"I called my mom at 2:52 and all she heard were my screams and the sirens."
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:42:46 PM
Henry Borgard, 21, is now speaking, eve tho' not initially a spectator at Marathon, but at Suffolk Univ. Did get to scene & see Martin body

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:43:04 PM
"I called my mom because I was genuinely afraid I was going to die and I needed her to know that I loved her."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:43:22 PM
He is now referring to emotional trauma & flashbacks. "The past two years have been hell & nothing can adequately describe how I feel."

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:43:24 PM
"I feel guilty that I'm still here."
Back packs, sirens, fireworks.
Dropped out of school because of PTSD, TBI.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:44:49 PM
Said he dropped out of school after diagnosed with PTSD, and he gets panic attacks/ traumatic reaction when hears loud sounds/sirens

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:44:52 PM
Had to re learn how to read.
"I want to know why. And I was really angry for a really long time. I was resentful."
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:45:41 PM
Borgard has jurors in tears as describes survivor's guilt, how he called mom to make sure she knew he loved her. Thought he would die.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:45:42 PM
Borgard said he has found a way to forgive the defendant even tho' what he did to me.
"Boston has taught me how to be resilient."

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:46:46 PM
"Boston taught me how to be resilient, even though I'm all the way out in Chicago."
Has forgiven Jahar.
#Tsaranev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:46:59 PM
Borgard said he is now returning to Suffolk Univ after time off and grateful to "random acts of kindness" in his psychological recovery.

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:48:11 PM
"Love is and always be louder."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:48:26 PM
"When I say I love you, I mean it, because I know how quickly life can be extinguish," he says.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:49:15 PM
Elizabeth Bourgalt, was at Marathon with husband.
"The physical and emotional pain I still suffer."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:50:23 PM
Elizabeth Borgault, spectator at marathon, now speaking. "The defendant was determined to destroy as many lives as he could."

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:50:45 PM
"Defendant does not care about the negative impact he's had on my life because that's the reason he got out of bed that morning."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:50:53 PM
She has learned things she never realized before: How much family/friends cared for me when I couldn't function.

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:51:21 PM
Friends and family cared for her.
"They were all my rock."
Changed careers, from legal to be a caregiver.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:52:05 PM
"The defendant is a coward in the s strongest sense of the word. The defendant will now die for what he did."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:52:26 PM
Whatever God he believes in will not welcome him for the crimes he committed.
His God will condemn him to suffering.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:52:52 PM
We have heard so much of the stories of the fatal victims, families, but these are untold stories. Of the lasting pain.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:53:09 PM
"I hope he never forgets and will be forever haunted by the fact that" he failed to destroy human spirit.
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:53:23 PM
And that she will be surrounded by her family, and he will not ever have his family.
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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:53:40 PM
Borgault believes whatever God the defendant believes in will not welcome the defendant..That God will condemn him to eternal sufferg.

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:53:52 PM
As Borgard put it, he would take same route home if he had to make decision again. Talks of generosity of strangers.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 6/24/2015 2:55:19 PM
Carol Downing, the mother of Erika Brannock and Nicole Gross, who were badly hurt.
She was running marathon.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:56:18 PM
"Erika lost a leg on Boylston street."
"My nightmare contiuned.
34 days in hospital for Nicole, 50 for Erika.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:56:54 PM
"So much focus has been on the injuries of the survivors. I feel like an invisible victim."

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by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:57:24 PM
"I was thrown into a mental marathon that tested my abilities for two years."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:57:50 PM
Carol Downing, Marathon runner, testifying through tears about her two daughters' injuries & extensive months-long hospitalizations

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:58:12 PM
Erika underwent many surgeries.
Downing was her caregiver post surgery.
No time to heal her emotional trauma.
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:59:46 PM
#Tsarnaev is now in a posture common during the trial: Sitting back in his wooden chair and rubbing at his beard

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 2:59:58 PM
One daughter had more than 20 surgeries . "I'd have to be strong for my daughters while I was falling apart myself. "

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 3:00:56 PM
She couldn't help Nicole because Erika had 21 surgeries.
"I had to be strong for my daughters when I was falling apart."
#Tsarnaev

by Kevin Cullen via twitter 6/24/2015 3:01:02 PM
Downing says through tears she suffers from overwhelming guilt for having her two daughters come as spectators (of her) at marathon

by Patricia Wen via twitter 6/24/2015 3:01:24 PM