The magazine Rolling Stone has placed Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the cover of its most recent edition drawing outrage from the Boston area as well as the entertainment industry.

The magazine claims it is maintaining a “commitment to serious and thoughtful coverage” of issues that impact their readers. They noted the average Rolling Stone reader is about the same age as the bomber.

However, the cover is drawing loud condemnation saying the move glorifies a terrorist and mass murderer.

“[Rolling Stone’s action] rewards a terrorist with celebrity treatment,” Boston Mayor Thomas Mennino wrote in a letter to the magazine. “[The cover is] ill-conceived, at best, and reaffirms a terrible message that destruction gains fame for killers and their ’causes’.”

“Rolling Stone has marketed Tsarnaev as a hero, a misunderstood teen, a product of two incompatible cultures,” Boston City Council President Stephen Murphy said. “He is not. He is a coward and a murderer who is appropriately facing the death penalty for his crimes.”

The cover also drew negative response from Rolling Stone’s main news source, the music industry.

Boston band Dropkick Murphys, who donated $300,000 to victims of the attack, tweeted “How about one of the courageous victims on your cover instead of this loser scum bag?”

Major retailers, including CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens, have said they will not carry the issue with the terrorist on the cover in any stores.