Trial set to begin two years after

2 years after the Boston marathon bombing which claimed the lives of 3 people and injuring hundreds more, a trial of the case is set to begin, The Guardian UK reports.

The trial which begins today, Wednesday will see the younger of the two perpetrators, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (21) a Kyrgyzstan-born naturalised US citizen from Cambridge take the stand.

Tsarnaev is the younger of the two brothers who were accused of carrying out the attack. The older brother Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police four days after the bombing.

Less than 24 hours later, Dzhokhar was captured by police after a manhunt of unprecedented scale, drenched in blood and near-unconscious, hiding under a boat’s tarpaulin in a backyard in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

Meanwhile, Tsarnaev faces 29 charges, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspiracy to bomb a place of public use resulting in death, bombings of places of public use resulting in death, and possession and use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.

The case is being referred to as the highest-profile federal terrorism trial on American soil since the 1997 conviction and later execution of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber. Like McVeigh, Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death sentence if convicted.

12 Massachusetts citizens have been chosen as jurors even as the case is expected to drag out through a lengthy sentencing phase.