Boston Bomber In "Pain" Feels That No One Should Suffer Like His Victims, Catholic Nun

A Roman Catholic nun reported on Monday that a Boston Marathon bomber is convinced that "no one deserves to suffer" like the 2013 victims attacks had, according to yahoo.

The nun, Sister Helen Prejean, is well-known for counselling death row convicts, and is said to have inspired the 1993 book and 1995 film "Dead Man Walking."

Last month, the federal jury had found that the 21-year-old man, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, had killed three and wounded 264 during the bombing. After Wednesday, it will debate whether it should sentence him to a death penalty or a lifelong imprisonment.

Sister Prejean said that she had met Tsarnaev five times this year, and he seemed very contrite. "He said it emphatically. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did," said Prejean said on Monday. "I had every reason to think that he was taking it in and that he was genuinely sorry for what he did." She smiled at him many times during her testimony, and clarified that she could hear "pain" in his voice when he talked about the bombings.

On April 15, 2013, a couple of pressure-cooker bombs had been detonated at the finishing line of a race, which made 17 people lose their limbs. Survivors of the bombings, as well as the family and friends of some victims, resulting from the blasts, came to give their testimony.

"I walked in the room and I looked at his face and I remembered, 'Oh my God, he's so young.' Which he is," Prejean said. "I sensed he was very respectful, and I felt it was pretty easy to establish a rapport."

However, those who are demanding the death penalty for Tsarnaev, an "ethnic Chechen", are convinced that he was part of al Qaeda's militant Islamic ideology and started the attack in order "to punish America", which had mounted a number of attacks on Islamic lands.

A number of attempts to bar Prejean from giving her testimony could not succeed.

Liz Norden, mother of two men who each lost a leg in the bombings, was not convinced that Tsarnaev did not deserve the death penalty. "If he was that remorseful, then he should have gotten up on the stand and said how sorry he is," Norden said. "To have other people get up and talk on his behalf, it means nothing to me."

Tsarnaev's defense lawyers explain that "he was a willing but secondary player" in the scheme that was stoked by his 26-year-old brother.

The accused was convicted of all the 30 charges against him, including 17 charges that could just be given the death penalty. He never took the stand.