A federal jury is nearing deliberations to determine whether the convicted terrorist who carried out a fatal attack on a New York City bike path in 2017 will get the death penalty
Attorneys finished closing arguments in Manhattan federal court Tuesday in the penalty phase of Sayfullo Saipov’s death penalty trial. The penalty phase began in February, following Saipov’s January conviction. The jury is expected to begin deliberations Wednesday. In closing arguments, a prosecutor for the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York called Saipov a “proud terrorist” who plotted to kill as many people as he could.
“He was banging and kicking the door and he punched his cell window so hard that he cracked the glass, something that that corrections officer had never seen before,” Houle said. ‘It is not necessary to kill Sayfullo Saipov’ Patton, Saipov’s court-appointed public defender, said during the defense closing argument Tuesday afternoon that Saipov’s outbursts in prison were nothing more than a “temper tantrum” that didn’t pose any true danger within the confines of his cell.
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