Sayfullo Saipov, the ISIS-affiliated perpetrator of a deadly assault on a New York City bike path that claimed eight innocent lives and injured eleven more, nearly avoided the death sentence in a trial that put the country on edge. The federal jury couldn’t agree on a verdict and finally decided to give the murderer life in prison.
Fox News reports that US Assistant Attorney Amanda Houle informed the jury that Saipov was a “proud terrorist” and “He chose to come to this country and fight for an enemy. And it is his choices that call for the most significant punishment that the law provides: the sentence of death.”
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The jury, which was made up of nine men and three women, was instructed by Saipov’s defense counsel, David Patton, to: “meeting death with more death is not the answer” for his client.
Saipov will spend the rest of his life in “isolated, solitary” confinement within the walls of a remote Colorado prison, according to Patton.
According to The New York Times, on the terrible day of October 31, 2017, Saipov terrorized the neighborhood as he controlled a rented Home Depot truck and rammed it along the picturesque cycle route tucked between NYC’s West Side Highway and the Hudson River.
A federal court rendered a decision about Saipov, an Uzbek citizen, in the first month of the year. He was convicted on a staggering 28 charges, ranging from supporting a terrorist organization to killing someone.
After being captured, Saipov told the FBI that his terrifying attack on helpless pedestrians was carried out as a sign of allegiance to ISIS.
Another prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Alexander Li, reportedly told the New York Post “It was a scene of destruction and horror. Mangled bicycles covered the path. The riders — human beings — lay unconscious or dead. Survivors staggered around, wounded and dazed, searching for family and friends”
According to Fox News, New York has not executed an inmate for a federal crime in nearly 70 years.”
