No death penalty for convicted New York City bike path killer
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A New York The jury couldn’t unanimously decide on this matter death penalty Sayfullo Saipov was convicted of murder. He will receive an automatic sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Mordes.
Saipov was a 35-year old Islamic extremist. found guilty on all 28 counts — eight counts of murder, 18 counts of attempted murder, and other terrorism-related charges — in January.
Saipov was driving a rented truck along a New York City bike path on Oct. 31, 2017. Over a dozen and a quarter people were hit by the truck and eight of them were killed.
NEW YORK CITY BIKE TERROR SUSPECT FOUND GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
The jury had been deliberating for the past week about whether to sentence Saipov the death penalty. However, they informed the judge Monday that they couldn’t reach the unanimous verdict required under New York state law in order to bring the harsher punishment.
New York’s death penalty is very rarely used. The state has stopped capital punishment, and the last time a prisoner was executed in 1963.
Saipov’s trial for the death penalty was the first in almost a decade. A federal jury sentenced a man to death in a similar case for the murder of two New York Police Detectives in 20
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