11:21 AM PDT 4/22/2013 by THR Staff
All three cable news networks were quick to report today's news that Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction.
CNN, MSNBC and Fox News quickly aired the report and began to pore through the federal filing.
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Tsarnaev has been charged with using and conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction for the bombings, which killed three and injured 176. In a statement, The Justice Department says if convicted, Tsarnaev faces a range of sentences -- from the death penalty to life in prison or a term in prison for any number of years.
Tsarnaev, who was seriously injured in a firefight with police before his Friday arrest, was charged in his hospital bed Monday. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed after a firefight with police early Friday.
