State prosecutor wants to try Marathon bomber

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said she would charge Tsarnaev with murdering MIT police officer Sean Collier and for other crimes in the aftermath of the marathon attacks, the paper said.

American scholar James Henry Fetzer says Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were the “patsies” of the Obama administration and that Dzhokhar’s conviction and death sentence over the Boston bombing is a “huge scam”.

A courtroom sketch shows Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (centre) seated as transit police Sergeant Richard “Dic” Donohue (right) gives testimony during his sentencing hearing in Boston, Massachusetts June 24, 2015. Three people were killed and over 260 were wounded when Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan planted two pressure cooker bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013.

Ryan told the newspaper that a guilty verdict in Massachusetts could keep the 21-year-old in jail if he successfully appeals his federal convictions.

The Tsarnaev brothers carjacked a Boston man that night and briefly held him hostage.

Tamerlan, 26, was killed on April 19, 2013 in a shootout with police in Watertown, Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe, citing experts, said they were unable to think of another case in which someone on federal death row was tried again on additional state charges.

Officials at Ryan’s office were not immediately available for comment.

Tsarnaev – a Muslim immigrant who took USA citizenship – also faces several other state charges, including carjacking and kidnapping, the report added. Boston prosecutors decided not to pursue separate state charges.

Tsarnaev filed a motion in federal court on Monday seeking a new trial, according to court records.