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osAzamat Tazhayakov, has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for obstructing police after Boston Marathon bombings.

Azamat Tazhayakov, a Kazakh exchange student, tearfully apologized on June 5 for removing a backpack containing fireworks from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s room.

He denounced the Boston bomber’s actions, which killed three and injured 264 at the finishing line of the marathon in 2013.

In 2014, Azamat Tazhayakov was convicted of obstruction of justices.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s three friends went into his dormitory to collect the evidence, a backpack and a laptop.Azamat Tazhayakov jailed for Boston bombing cover up

One of them, Dias Kadyrbayev, took the lead in removing the items, texting with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he did so, while the two other friends, including Azamat Tazhayakov and American Robel Phillipos, stood by and assisted, according to reports from the Boston Globe.

Dias Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty in 2014 to removing the backpack from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s room and was sentenced on June 2 to six years in prison.

Judge Douglas Woodlock said: “There is no question that this was a very serious offence, the failure to act properly when confronted with the devastating event.”

Azamat Tazhayakov said the decision to bomb the Boston marathon “made him sick”. His father wept as he apologized.

Robel Phillipos was sentenced to three years in prison on June 5 for lying to investigators.

The three friends all attended the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Judge Douglas Woodlock said he thought Dias Kadrybayev was “most culpable” of the three friends.

The authorities are not claiming that Robel Phillipos, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev were aware of the Boston Marathon bombing before it happened.

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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death by lethal injection.

Three people were killed and 260 were injured when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan placed bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon in 2013.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, now 21, is likely to be moved to a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, to await execution, but there could be years of appeals.

Victims sobbed as the sentence was read, but Dzhkhar Tsarnaev showed no emotion.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death

“Now he will go away and we will be able to move on. Justice. In his own words, <<an eye for an eye>>,” said bombing victim Sydney Corcoran, who nearly bled to death and whose mother lost both legs.

After 14 hours of deliberations, the jury concluded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev showed no remorse and therefore should be put to death.

“The jury has spoken. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will pay for his crimes with his life,” said US Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

Massachusetts as a state ended the death penalty in 1984, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was tried on federal charges, meaning he was eligible for execution.

After the sentence was announced, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said: “The ultimate penalty is a fitting punishment for this horrific crime and we hope that the completion of this prosecution will bring some measure of closure to the victims and their families.”

However, not all of the victims supported the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The parents of Martin Richard, an 8-year-old boy killed in the blast, wrote an article in the Boston Globe newspaper last month asking the government to not seek a death sentence as it would delay their emotional closure.

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