Sister Helen Prejean: Tsarnaev ‘genuinely sorry for what he did’

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BOSTON—Helen Prejean, the Catholic nun and anti-death penalty activist whose story came to fame with the 1995 film Dead Man Walking, took the stand on Monday in the penalty phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial. She said he is “genuinely sorry for what he did,” and told her how he felt about the suffering he caused to the bombing’s victims.

“He said it emphatically,” Prejean said. “He said no one deserves to suffer like they did. . . . I had every reason to think he was taking it in and he was genuinely sorry for what he did.”