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Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a dead man walking.

The 21-year-old Kyrgyzstan terrorist was found guilty for his role in the 2012 Boston Marathon attacks and a jury of his peers felt like he needed a sitdown with the executioner.

Reports Boston Globe:

The sentence handed down by the seven-woman, five-man jury came at the end of a lengthy, high-profile trial. Tsarnaev, who had taken a sharp turn from hopeful immigrant college student to radical jihadist, also was convicted for murdering an MIT police officer.

The April 15, 2013, bombing was one of the worst terror attacks in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.

US District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. will impose the sentence at a hearing where Tsarnaev’s victims will be able to confront him and he also has the option of addressing the court.

The jury took 14 1/2 hours over three days to render its decision on the penalty Tsarnaev faces.

Those in the courtroom for the verdict included Bill and Denise Richard, parents of 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, the youngest victim of the attack. Despite the devastating impact on their family, the Richards had called for life in prison, rather than death, for Tsarnaev.

Federal prosecutors said Tsarnaev was a remorseless self-radicalized terrorist who had participated in the bombing to make a political statement.

It is what it is.

Photo: Boston Police Department