A federal jury has sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection for setting off bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon that killed three and injured more than 260. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz welcomed the decision.

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz: “Today, the jury has spoken, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will pay with his life for his crimes. Make no mistake: The defendant claimed to be acting on behalf of all Muslims; this was not a religious crime, and it certainly does not reflect true Muslims beliefs. It was a political crime designed to intimidate and to coerce the United States.”

The sentence was issued in Massachusetts, a state which has banned the death penalty since 1987 and has not carried out an execution since 1947. After Tsarnaev was found guilty in April, a Boston Globe poll found less than 20 percent of Massachusetts residents believed Tsarnaev should be killed. But the death penalty was allowed because it was a federal trial.