Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadine Pellegrini (standing) speaks during the sentencing phase of the murder trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as Tsarnaev is seen gesturing in a photograph, in a courtroom sketch in Boston April 21, 2015. REUTERS/Jane Collins
BOSTON (Reuters) - Celeste Corcoran was hurled into the air by a bomb at the Boston Marathon finish line two years ago. Gillian Reny saw blood gushing from her legs and wondered if she would survive. William Campbell waited hours for his daughter to emerge from surgery only to learn she had been killed by the blasts.
Prosecutors on Tuesday began their case to sentence convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death with an emotional gut-punch to the jury as survivors described the toll of the April 15, 2013, attack that killed three people and injured 264.
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