BOSTON, Massachusetts (NEWS CENTER) -- The same jury that convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 8 of carrying out the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon bombing has determined Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death.
The jury only deliberated for 15 hours before reaching their verdict.
It took nearly two months of juror interviews, 256 people over 22 court days, to finally solidify the jury pool, here's a closer look at the jurors.
(List compiled from CNN)
Juror 35 -- A middle-aged white man, he works for the Massachusetts Department of Energy. He believes the war on terror has been "overblown."
Juror 41 -- She appears to be in her 40s and works as a senior executive assistant. She has prior jury experience in a civil case. "I'm not one way for the death penalty, or one way against," she said.
Juror 83 -- He's taking a break from college. His mother was born in Iran and he speaks some Farsi. His mother converted from Islam to Baha'i. "In certain cases, a life in prison can be an eye-opening experience," he said.
Juror 102 -- A nurse, she appears to be in her late 20s or early 30s and eager to be on the jury. She had a trip planned for April, when her lease expires but is willing to delay the trip and live in an RV during her jury service. "I can't make a decision whether he is guilty or not until I hear evidence," she said.
Juror 138 -- He works for the Water Department for a city outside Boston. "Death can sometimes see like an easy way out. It can go both ways, I guess," he said.
Juror 229 -- Her husband is a financial adviser and she volunteers at a hotline for victims of domestic violence. A former social worker, she says she quit because, "I didn't want to pay somebody else to raise my kids." If she were in the defendant's position, or someone in her family was, she says, "I'd want that fair trial."
Juror 286 -- She works as a general manager at a restaurant. She's aware of the events, saying, "I'll tell ya, I watch the news. I've seen reports." She has been a juror before, and the experience filled her with pride. She wore a Boston Strong T-shirt at Disneyland, and says people pointed to it and said, "Cool shirt."
Juror 349 -- She has a new job at a fashion design company, and thinks Tsarnaev is guilty, but will keep an open mind. "I think there was involvement. I think anybody would think that." She remembers reading about defense attorney Judy Clarke. "I think I'm a pretty fair and equitable person, and intelligent. I think I'd think it through."
Juror 395 -- She's an executive assistant at a law firm. She always assumed she was against the death penalty, "but once you think about it, things change."
Juror 441 -- He's an auditor who has served on a criminal jury before. He appears to be in his 20s and is perhaps the youngest of the jurors.
Juror 480 -- He's a middle-aged telecommunciations engineer and was working on the phone system as Massachusetts General Hospital on the day of the bombings. He says he was aware of "a buzz in the air" and knew something was going on that day, but was far from the action.
Juror 487 -- She has four kids: a college student, a high school senior and 8-year-old twins. She says Tsarnaev "obviously, seemed (to play) a role in it" but "I understand you are not guilty until proven guilty."
Juror 552 -- He's one of the older jurors, with white hair. He's retired and has kept busy as a school bus driver. "I just have a notion that a person is innocent until proven guilty," he said. He thinks life in prison is "a worse situation than being put to death."
Juror 567 -- He's an air traffic controller, and works for a contractor for the U.S. Coast Guard on Cape Cod. He thinks Tsarnaev was "somewhat involved" and looks at the death penalty "with some trepidation."
Juror 588 -- She leads digital sales at a suburban Barnes & Noble bookstore. "You don't know if someone is guilty or not until the case is over, that's kind of a point of a trial," she says. She is personally opposed to the death penalty but knows she has to follow the law, even if she doesn't like it.
Juror 598 -- A house painter, he says jury duty would be a hardship but he's "willing to serve my country." He's open-minded. "I think I could be impartial because any preconceived notion doesn't matter. What matters is there are two sides to any story."
Juror 608 -- She and husband are retired. She was an actuary. He was a public school music teacher. She worries about executing an innocent person and would tend to err on the side of a life sentence. "It's the prosecutor's job to put on a good enough case to convince me," she says. She isn't convinced the death penalty is the harshest punishment. "Just because society says the death penalty is the worst, I don't necessarily look at it that way."
Juror 638 -- She works for the state, teaching life skills to the developmentally challenged. She is open to the death penalty if "enough evidence was presented that it was absolutely horrific. "
Death Penalty
Many of the crimes Tsarnaev was convicted of were of capital offense, which hold the death penalty. But in Massachusetts, where the trial was being held, the death penalty does not exist.
According to a poll released by WBUR, Bostonians favor a sentence of life without parole for Tsarnaev, rather than death. Given the choice, 62 percent of Boston voters said they would sentence Tsarnaev to prison for the rest of his life without the possibility of parole, while 27 percent said he should be put to death.
The last Massachusetts execution was in 1947, and then following that in 1984 the state abolished the death penalty.
One of the victim's parents Martin Richard have openly opposed the death penalty for the convicted killer. They stated "We are in favor of and would support the Department of Justice in taking the death penalty off the table in exchange for the defendant spending the rest of his life in prison without any possibility of release and waiving all of his rights to appeal."
But others victims and victim's families said they favored Tsarnaev's execution.
The selection process was very strict, ensuring all jurors would keep an open-mind on the decision to convict Tsarnaev. Just like any other trial, the jury had to vote unanimously in order for Tsarnaev to get the death penalty.
NBC News says even though Tsarnaev was handed the death penalty, he probably won't be executed for years, if not decades. There are many avenues of appeal, including petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court and president.
Contributing information from CNN, NBC NEWS, AP
