NEW: A jury has spared Sayfullo Saipov the death penalty after it was unable to come to a unanimous decision in the penalty phase deliberations for the Halloween 2017 terror attack in New York City that killed eight people.
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released Nov. 1, 2017.A jury has spared Sayfullo Saipov the death penalty after it was unable toMonday in the penalty phase deliberations for a Halloween 2017 terror attack in New York City that killed eight people.
A decision for death had to be unanimous. Instead, Saipov will spend life in prison without the possibility of release at ADX in Colorado.of killing eight people and trying to kill 18 more in the ISIS-inspired truck attack on a bike path adjacent to the Hudson River. It was the deadliest terror attack in New York since Sept. 11, 2001.
The defense moved for a mistrial, invoking a strict interpretation of the federal death penalty statute that says the sentence must be put "before the jury that determined the defendant's guilt," which the judge denied. An alternate was added to the jury for final deliberations.
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