A jury found Sayfullo Saipov guilty in the deadly West Side Highway terror attack on Halloween 2017 in Manhattan.
Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek native who drove a rented truck down a Manhattan bike path adjacent to the Hudson River in an ISIS-inspired terror attack that killed eight people, was convicted Thursday by a federal court jury of murder and attempted murder in order to gain entry to ISIS, making him eligible for the death penalty.
A death sentence for Saipov would be an extreme rarity in New York. The state no longer has capital punishment and the last state execution was in 1963. A federal jury in New York has not rendered a death sentence that withstood legal appeals in decades, with the last execution in 1954.
The defense called no witnesses but said Saipov did not carry out the attack to join ISIS as prosecutors said. Rather the defense said Saipov intended to die a martyr.
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