The Boston Marathon bomber has been ordered to pay more than $101 million to his victims.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 22, was sentenced in June to death by lethal injection for his role in the 2013 bomb attack.
Three people died and more than 260 were injured in the attack.
Tsarnaev carried out the attack along with his brother Tamerlan, who died whilst resisting arrest by authorities.
At a hearing yesterday, the judge also rejected Tsarnaev’s request for a retrial.
The bomber had argued that he had not received a fair trial due to the intense publicity surrounding the case.
However, the judge said that this was not a valid argument.
Judge George O’Toole said: “There is no reason to think that if the trial had been moved to another district, the local media in that district would not have given it attentive coverage.”
The Boston Globe reports that the $101 million compensation: “was based on a consultant’s report of the cost of the injuries suffered by victims and the financial toll the injuries will take on the rest of their lives.”
However, it is not expected that victims will ever receive the funds as: “Tsarnaev will have no ability to pay the restitution while he remains in prison appealing a death sentence, making the order a symbolic gesture.”
With additional reporting by Reuters
