NEW YORK — A jury has spared Sayfullo Saipov the death penalty after it was unable to come to a unanimous decision Monday in the penalty phase deliberations for a Halloween 2017 terror attack in New York City that killed eight people.
The jury agreed"sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release is a harsh punishment," according to the verdict form. It also agreed Saipov intentionally killed his victims after"substantial planning and premeditation" and did it for ISIS. However, the jury did not unanimously find that Saipov represented a future danger or would likely commit acts of violence while in prison.
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. In response, Broderick instructed jurors to disregard both lethal injection and the Biden administration's death penalty moratorium, saying they were"not proper considerations for your deliberations.
Meanwhile, defense attorney David Patton told jurors they face"an awesome responsibility and power" and should spare Saipov the death penalty and let him"die in obscurity, not as a hero, not as a martyr."
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