• Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev raises his middle finger at a surveillance camera in his holding cell in this 2013 surveillance image released by the U.S. Justice Department on April 22. The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Friday sentenced Tsarnaev to death for helping carry out the 2013 attack in which three people died and 264 were injured. | REUTERS
    Convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev raises his middle finger at a surveillance camera in his holding cell in this 2013 surveillance image released by the U.S. Justice Department on April 22. The jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Friday sentenced Tsarnaev to death for helping carry out the 2013 attack in which three people died and 264 were injured. | REUTERS

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NEW YORK – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death Friday. But his execution may not happen for decades — if ever.

A lengthy appellate process, an effective moratorium on federal executions and declining support among Americans for capital punishment all suggest that Tsarnaev’s death by lethal injection is far from a sure thing, according to death penalty experts.

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