Boston police chief 'fine' with calls for marathon bomb suspect's execution Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a wait of up to a year to find out if he will face the death penalty if he is convicted of the Boston marathon bombings. The Boston police commissioner who led the hunt for the Boston marathon bombers has said that he is comfortable with the surviving suspect facing the death penalty. Edward Davis said he had no sympathy for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and when asked how he felt about the possibility that he could be sentenced to death, Davis replied: "That's fine with me." The US government is likely to take at least a year to decide whether or not to seek the death penalty forTsarnaev, according to legal experts. Tsarnaev, 19, is likely to have to wait until the summer of 2014 before he learns whether he might face lethal injection for his alleged role in the bombings that killed three people and injured more than 250. Speaking on the BBC's Today programme on Saturday, Davis said that the Tsarnaev brothers appeared to have directed their social frustrations to political extremism rather than common crime. The way this is shaping up is that we have disaffected young men in inner city neighbourhoods who are involved in violence all the time and we normally deal with this in gang activity. In this case the motive is not drugs or gangs, it's extremism, he said. Its important that society does as much outreach to people who are marginalised as possible. But he said such concerns should not be mistaken for sympathy. I watched this young man put a satchel on the ground which blew up and killed an 8-year old boy and a young woman standing next to him. I have no sympathy for him.