After considering various mitigating circumstances put forth by Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s defense, a twelve-person jury in Boston sentenced him to death today. From the Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen, who’s covered the trial for months now:

The Globe’s story is here. Appeals, however, may go on for years. The family of the youngest victim of the bombing, Martin Richard, had urged the jury not to sentence Tsarnaev to death, to avoid the appeals process.