Sayfullo Saipov, a radicalized Uzbek who killed eight cyclists and pedestrians in a large vehicle in New York in 2017 on behalf of Daesh, was found guilty Thursday by a federal jury in Manhattan, where he faces the death penalty.
The 34-year-old man, who had been on trial since January 9, was found guilty of 28 counts, including eight of “murder to join ISIS,” “carrying the death penalty or life imprisonment,” the prosecutor’s office said. Manhattan US Attorney. saying.
The worst attack in New York since September 11, 2001
On Halloween 2017, Sayfullo Saipov launched his truck on a trip along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan, causing heavy casualties and killing eight people, including five Argentines and one Belgian.
It was the deadliest death toll from an attack in New York after September 11, 2001.
This trial is the first at the federal level of Joe Biden’s term where the death penalty is at stake.
The debated sentence of February 6
In November 2020, the démocrate president will have the promis pendant of the workers’ campaign to abolish the capital comb at the federal level and are the minister of Justice will have the décrété peu après l’élection un moratoire sur les exécutions fédérales, n’empêchant pas celles décidées par the states.
But in a September 16, 2022 court document in the Sayfullo Saipov case file, Manhattan District Attorney Damian Williams acknowledged the Justice Department’s decision to “continue to seek the death penalty” in the case, a determined position under the mandate of Donald Trump (2017-2021).
According to the Manhattan prosecutor’s office, the debates to define the sentence will begin on February 6 before the same jury of twelve people, who must be unanimous if they want to sentence Saipov to the death penalty.
The death penalty has been abolished in New York State but may be applied in the case of a federal trial. However, the last execution dates back several decades in this state.
Source: BFM TV
