April 15th, 2013. A date etched into the memories and hearts of many people including three families who will never see a loved one again. Lu Lingzi, 23, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Martin Richard, 8 years old, were lost on that April day.

Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon at about 2:50 PM on April 15th, 2013, killing 3 and injuring an estimated 264. The suspects, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers, fled the scene. They then killed a MIT police officer, Sean Collier, who was pronounced dead at a local hospital. The duo then carjacked a Mercedes-Benz and kidnapped the owner of the car, forcing him to use his ATM cards to get $800 in cash.

After midnight on April 19th, a Watertown, Mass. police officer(Watertown the focus area of the search at the time) identified the two brothers in two cars. A gunfight then ensued, injuring a transit officer and killing Tamerlan, the elder, after being shot and "dragged by [a] motor vehicle". Dzhokhar escaped on car, and then on foot. A manhunt would continue, shutting the bustling metro area of Boston into a standstill, until Dzhokhar was found in a boat behind a Watertown resident's boat.

Today, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is located in a confinement cell and will face trial in the coming weeks. Massachusetts, a state that outlawed the death penalty in 1982, still allows the death penalty to be brought back in certain cases, but the decision must be made by a judge. Judge George O'Toole decided that Tsarnaev "betrayed the United States" and therefore will face the death penalty.

Jury selection continues through several rounds, but the final jury will be required to consider the death penalty as a possibility, ruling out many people including supporters of civil rights organizations like the ACLU. A verdict is expected in several months.