14 DAY TRIAL // Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers are claiming that a note left by the Boston Marathon bomber has only been a farewell coupled with an explanation.
"The U.S. government is killing our innocent civilians. [...] I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished," a bloody note found on a boat in Watertown reads.
Tsarnaev was on that boat, after a manhunt that lasted four days and left his older brother killed in a police shootout.
UPI writes that Tsarnaev is now facing the death penalty. His defense team argue that his final words are not a call to action, meant to start a holy war. They are just some final words that Tsarnaev has put down while waiting to die on that boat.
He is currently detained at Fort Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts and he will be in court on November 12.
[Update, November 7, 2013]: A previous version of this news blog mentioned the location of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture as Watergate; it is, in fact, Watertown. The error has been remedied, thanks to my readers.