A jury in Manhattan federal court will decide whether to authorize an execution for the first time in New York since 1963.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Prosecutors will ask 12 jurors in Manhattan federal court on Monday to authorize the execution of Sayfullo Saipov, the man who ran over and killed eight people along the West Side Highway bike path in October 2017 with a rented Home Depot truck.of murder and terrorism charges last month. His attack was the deadliest in New York since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Saipov is from Uzbekistan, and federal prosecutors alleged he carried out the attack to become a member of ISIS. “I expect that he will end up being sentenced to capital punishment,” said David Viola, an adjunct professor at the Center on Terrorism at John Jay College and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. “Whether or not the administration goes forward with carrying that sentence out is another thing that we'll have to see.”
have been stalled in the process for years. But he also warned that Saipov’s fate could hinge on the next presidential election.The Southern District court argued for Saipov’s execution in 2018, citing that he sought to “further the ideological goals of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.”
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