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Before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Last Man Boston Sentenced to Death
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-man-boston-sentenced-death/story?id=31102535-snip-
Prior to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence last week, the last person judged worthy of the ultimate punishment in a Boston courthouse has spent more than a decade on death row assaulting prison inmates and staff, writing an autobiography and ordering cappuccino through the prison's commissary, according to court records and a prison official.
Gary Lee Sampson, who grew up in Massachusetts, was sentenced to death in 2003 on federal carjacking and murder charges stemming from a week-long crime spree that left three people dead. The judgment against him was read in the same Boston courthouse where Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, heard Friday he would suffer the same fate.
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