Tsarnaev's immediate fate: Sitting and waiting

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[h=4]Tsarnaev's immediate fate: Sitting and waiting[/h]Although Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received the death penalty for the Boston Marathon killings, the sentence will not be carried out for several years.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received the death penalty for his role in the Boston marathon bombing. VPC


The execution room at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is shown in this undated file photo.(Photo: Federal Bureau of Prisons/AP)


Although Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received the death penalty Friday for the Boston Marathon killings, his sentence likely would not be carried out for several years until a laborious federal appeals process is played out.
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. will formally impose the sentence at a later date at a hearing that will include statements from the bombing victims.
Tsarnaev will also be given the opportunity to address the court.
After he is officially sentenced, the Federal Bureau of Prisons will review his case and decide where he will go until his execution. Most federal prisoners sentenced to death serve their time at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where federal executions are conducted by lethal injection.

The United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind. Death row inmates are kept in a Special Confinement Unit, shown in the photo with a green roof.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Mike Fender, The Indianapolis Star, GPN)

Because Tsarnaev received the death sentence, his case will automatically be appealed to a higher federal court. A series of appeals could take years to resolve as his lawyers revisit such issues as the lower court's refusal of their repeated efforts to move the case out of an emotionally charged Boston.
There have been only three executions since 1988 moratorium 1988.
Tsarnaev's execution would be the first in a federal case since Louis Jones Jr. was put to death for the kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride in 2003.
The last high-profile execution at the Terre Haute penitentiary was in 2001, when Timothy McVeigh was put to death for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
At Terre Haute's special confinement unit -- or death row -- inmates are confined to small individual cells that have a bed, toilet, shower, a chair connected to a desk, and a small color television, according to Sister Rita Clare Gerardo, a spiritual adviser for a former death row inmate.
She told the Tribune Star, a Terre Haute newspaper, that meals are pushed through a slot.
"There is no recreation, but they can go out of their cells three times a week into cages," she said.
Gerardot, who was given a description of the facility by former inmates, said prisoners can speak to people in nearby cells and have limited access to telephone and email, as well as a library. They can also purchase additional food o clothing at a commissary.
"Truthfully, I don't know how they keep their sanity," Gerardot told the newspaper. "They have to be persons of great strength of will to get up every day, and know they have no choices."
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