A split among jurors means there will be no death penalty for a man who killed 8 people by driving a truck along a New York City bike path.
Prosecutors said he smiled as he asked that an Islamic State group flag be posted on the wall of his hospital room.
While some U.S. states send prisoners to death row with regularity, that kind of outcome is extremely rare in New York, which no longer has capital punishment and last executed a prisoner in 1963.Biden pledged during his campaign to work toward abolishing federal capital punishment, and no federal executions have taken place since he took office. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on executions for federal crimes in 2021, but has allowed U.S.
During his trial, Saipov seemed moved by testimony from his father and sisters. Otherwise he sat quietly, his shoulders slumped, as he listened through headphones to the testimony of , including a woman from Belgium who lost her legs, and her husband, who needed brain surgery because of the attack.Saipov turned down the chance to testify at trial. But during his 2019 pretrial hearing, he lectured Judge Vernon S. Broderick about the American legal system, insisting that he could not be judged for eight deaths when “ thousands and thousands of Muslims are dying all over the world.”Assistant U.S.
Defense attorney David Patton urged a life sentence, saying his client then will “die in prison in obscurity, not as a martyr, not as a hero to anyone.”
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