16 more prospective jurors heard.

• Author: Lavoie, Denise
• Position: News

Byline: Denise Lavoie

BOSTON -- Sixteen prospective jurors were questioned Wednesday in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after a two-day delay because of a snowstorm.

Tsarnaev is charged in the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. Jury selection in Tsarnaev's federal death penalty trial began Jan. 5. A total of 173 potential jurors have now been questioned.

Here is a sampling of what prospective jurors had to say when questioned Wednesday:

Juror No. 275, an academic adviser at Suffolk University:

On the marathon bombings: ''Sure, I know a lot of people who were affected by it. ... I think everyone in the country was affected by it in some way.''

On the death penalty: ''I don't think it's ever a deterrent, but I think it has the...