Liz Norden can finally smile again after welcoming a beloved grandson into the family.
She has also helped launch "A Leg Forever," a fundraising organization to help those facing rising bills for prosthetics.
"We're helping a nurse who lost her leg and brought one of my sons back to life," she said. "Now we want to help her in her time of need."
That nurse was one of many unsung heroes after the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013, which killed three spectators and injured 260 more. His two elder sons lost their legs in the terror attack.
Friday's announcement that the Supreme Court has restored the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought this proud grandmother closer to the justice she awaited.
"I've been waiting for justice for so long, so for me this decision made me feel grateful. It's bad to feel like that, but I do. We need to start holding people accountable so that maybe other families don't care about me." Don't pass along the sons," she told the Herald.
She shared a photo of her little granddaughter, still shy of a year old, wearing a running suit, but smiling in her father's hands as she stands.
"We bought her a Boston Strong outfit," Liz said. And they'll all cheer for the team running for the family charity this April.
US Attorney Rachel Rollins of Massachusetts sent a statement Friday that she is also thinking of all the victims.
"On April 15, 2013, Boston changed forever. Christelle Campbell, Lingzhi Lu, Martin Richard, and Officer Sean Collier were murdered, while hundreds of other innocent victims were crippled and injured," Rollins said.
“Over the course of four days, Boston and our surrounding towns and cities sheltered in fear and disbelief. Although the mark remains nine years later, the tolerance of our city, the families of the victims and the hundreds of brave survivors knows no bounds. Is."
Liz Norden and her sons, J.P. And count Paul, who endures.
The judges voted 6-3 that a federal appeals court was wrong to overturn the death sentence imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing.
“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev committed heinous crimes. The Sixth Amendment nonetheless guaranteed him a fair trial before an impartial jury. He received one," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority.
Justice Stephen Breyer called on the court to reconsider the death penalty.
Rollins said: "Legal decisions cannot erase the trauma and pain. Our focus is today and always on the hundreds of families who have been deeply affected and hurt by this gruesome act of domestic terrorism."