The same 12 New Yorkers who quickly convicted terrorist Sayfullo Saipov last month of all 28 federal counts against him for murdering eight people on the Hudson River Park bike path on Halloween 2017 will now decide if he should be put to death or locked away forever.
New York state doesn’t have capital punishment, but the U.S. government does in rare instances, like the terrorism committed by Saipov.
Other terrorists who murdered and maimed in pursuit of their twisted political ideology, either home-grown or foreign, have been sentenced to death by the federal courts. Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh’s death sentence was carried out and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence is still being fought over in the courts. They used bombs. Saipov used a rented truck from Home Depot to run people down.
