April 19 carries a weight in modern American memory that extends well beyond any single individual. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who with his brother detonated pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 2013, killing three people and wounding hundreds, was among the younger perpetrators of mass casualty attacks in recent decades — nineteen years old at the time. The date itself has long drawn those drawn to spectacle and destruction; the bombing was carried out two days before Tsarnaev's capture in a Watertown, Massachusetts backyard, closing one of the largest manhunts in Boston's history. His death sentence, reinstated by the Supreme Court in 2022, remains under review.