BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors and defense attorneys on Wednesday made their final appeals to the jury that will decide the fate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as jurors began deliberating whether the Boston Marathon bomber should get life in prison or the death penalty. The prosecution told jurors Tsarnaev was a remorseless terrorist worthy of the death penalty, while the defense said he was repentant and deserved to be spared.  Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell was the “light of her father’s life,” prosecutor Steve Mellin said during closing arguments in the penalty phase of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial Wednesday. "The choice between these very serious alternatives is yours and yours alone to make," Judge George O'Toole Jr. told the panel. Tsarnaev, 21, was convicted by a federal jury last month of all 30 counts against him, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. Mellin reminded jurors that some of them — before they were chosen for the jury — expressed a belief that a life sentence may be worse than death. He’ll be sent to ADX, where Clarke said “he’ll have no glory and stature that martyrdom could bring.” 
 
 Clarke emphasized that no punishment could take back what Tsarnaev did, or even “balance the scales.” Life is prison is not a lesser punishment than death, she said—it’s just another kind. Clarke made her plea shortly after the prosecution told jurors Tsarnaev was a terrorist whose actions "have earned him a sentence of death." Prosecution: 'What terrorism looks like' 
 
 In his closing argument, prosecutor Mellin showed gruesome images to remind jurors of the carnage unleashed on April 15, 2013 , stating: "This is what terrorism looks like." During the four-month trial, prosecutors portrayed Tsarnaev as a callous, unrepentant terrorist who carried out the deadly attack with his radicalized older brother, Tamerlan. She asked jurors to hold open their minds and try to understand how and why Tsarnaev became involved in the plot. “I ask you to choose life.” 
 
 During his rebuttal, prosecutor William Weinreb criticized the defense’s continued focus on Tamerlan: “At times it might have seemed to you that Tamerlan was on trial.” 
 
 But at no point in the trial, Weinreb said, did the defense prove that Tamerlan made his brother commit any crimes, or brainwashed him to hold any radical beliefs. They were partners in crime and brothers in arms." He concluded his argument by saying "a death sentence is not giving him what he wants. It is giving him what he deserves." Defense lawyers have said a life sentence would also help the families of his victims, who would not be subjected to the years of appeals and public attention that would almost certainly follow a sentence of death. “The story of the Boston Marathon bombing is of a tragedy of their making, but it is more than that,” she said. "This defendant does not want to die. But in her closing argument, defense attorney Judy Clarke said the death penalty is reserved for the worst of the worst—and “Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is not the worst of the worst.” 
 
 Clarke spent much of her argument going through the circumstances that brought Tsarnaev into the plot she said originated with Tamerlan. Related 
 
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 Timeline of Boston Marathon Bombing Events Hide Caption 11 of 35 Photos: Boston Marathon bombing evidence Pictured here is a box of bullets found on a street after the shootout in Watertown. The brothers' fingerprints were on the box, prosecutors said. By day, he was a slacker college sophomore. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded near the marathon's finish line on April 15, 2013. Clarke said Tsarnaev's parents favored his older brother and pinned their hopes on him, believing he would become an Olympic boxer. “We think we’ve shown you that … Dzhokhar has potential for redemption,” Clarke said. She reminded jurors of the testimony of Sister Helen Prejean, the Roman Catholic nun famous for counseling the condemned on death row. "We think that we have shown you that it's not only possible, but probable that Dzhokhar has potential for redemption," she said, adding that he was "genuinely sorry for what he's done." "What unrepentant, unchanged, untouched young jihadi is going to meet with a Catholic nun. She has successfully fought for the lives of Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, and Jared Loughner , the gunman who killed a judge and wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. “The defendant deserves the death penalty not because he’s inhuman,” Weinreb said, “but because he’s inhumane.” 
 
 Referring to life in prison as the minimum allowable punishment for Tsarnaev’s crimes, Weinreb asked jurors, “Does he deserve the minimum punishment, or do these crimes, these four deaths, deserve something more?” 
 
 It was the government’s last line to the jury, who are now tasked with determining Tsarnaev’s fate.
– Now Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate is up to the jury: either life in prison or the death sentence. Attorneys made their closing arguments today in the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial, with prosecutors focusing on the carnage he helped inflict and defense attorneys on his reported remorse, the Boston Globe reports. They also sparred over whether Dzhokhar, now 21, had fallen under the spell of his older brother, Tamerlan. Among the highlights: "The bombs burned their skin, shattered their bones and ripped their flesh," says prosecutor Steve Mellin, the AP reports. The blasts "disfigured their bodies, twisted their limbs and punched gaping holes into their legs and torsos. Merely killing the person, isn't nearly as terrifying as shredding them apart." "He acted like it was any other day," says Mellin, who notes that Tsarnaev calmly bought milk 20 minutes after the bombing. "He was stress-free and remorse-free. He didn't care because the death and misery was what he sought that day." "The only sentence that will do justice in this case is a sentence of death," adds Mellin. But with a life sentence, Tsarnaev will "have no glory or stature that martyrdom will bring," says defense attorney Judy Clarke, CNN reports. "His name will fade from the headlines. It will fade from the news altogether." "That sounds like growth," says Clarke of Tsarnaev's meeting with a nun, to whom he reportedly showed remorse. "What unrepentant, unchanged, untouched young jihadi is going to meet with a Catholic nun." "I can tell you this," says Clarke. "Jahar Tsarnaev is not the worst of the worst. And that is what the death penalty is reserved for—the worst of the worst."