US to seek death penalty for Boston Marathon suspect

Federal prosecutors say they’ll seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arguing that he acted in “an especially heinous, cruel and depraved manner” and lacks remorse.

The highly anticipated announcement Thursday means that when the case against Tsarnaev goes to trial, jurors will not only weigh whether he’s guilty, but also whether he deserves to die.

For Liz Norden, it’s one small step forward.

Her sons, JP and Paul, each lost a leg in the bombings, which killed three people and injured more than 250 at the April 15 race.

“I just am relieved that it’s going forward in the right direction, one step forward in the recovery process, just that the option is out there on the table for the jurors, if that’s the way it goes,” she told CNN’s The Situation Room.

Whenever the case goes to trial, Norden said she plans to attend every day.

“It’s important to me. I’m trying to make sense of what happened that day. My boys went to watch a friend run the marathon, and one came home 46 days later. The other one, 32 days later. And their lives are forever changed,” she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So I want to try and find out, somehow, to make some sense of how somebody could do this to all these innocent people.”