Sept 11, 2018; New York, NY, USA; A memorial sign marks a bike path on West St. crossing Chambers St. where eight bicyclists were killed on October 31, 2017 adding to the victims of terrorist attacks that have taken place in lower Manhattan. © NorthJersey.com-USA TODAY NETWORK
News: Remembering September 11th
(New York, NY) – Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbeki national who drove a rented truck down the West Side bike path in 2017, will spend the rest of his life in prison. The federal jury that convicted him would have needed to be unanimous in order to sentence him to death. Saipov, who lived in Paterson, New Jersey at the time, killed eight people and injured nearly a dozen during the attack, which happened on Halloween 2017.
Federal prosecutors had asked the judge to poll each member of the jury, in an attempt to see if a unanimous verdict could be reached. He declined to do so. New York State doesn’t have the death penalty, and hasn’t carried out an execution since the 1960s. It was in the 1950s when a federal jury last sentenced a defendant to death, in terms of cases that were upheld on appeal.
