The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, perpetrated by brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev using pressure cooker bombs near the finish line, killed three people and injured 264 others. Following a manhunt, Tamerlan died in a Watertown shootout on April 19, 2013, and Dzhokhar was captured. Dzhokhar was tried, convicted of 30 counts in 2015, and sentenced to death.
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