Death penalty phase of trial looms for NYC bike path killer
in the 2017 attack, in which he intentionally drove a truck at high speed down a path along the Hudson River, mowing down bicyclists on a sunny morning hours before the city’s Halloween celebrations.
New York does not have capital punishment and hasn’t executed anyone since 1963, but Saipov’s trial is in federal court, where, though one rarely sought with success. The last time a person was executed for a federal crime in New York was in 1954. “There is no rhyme, reason, or predictability as to why the government chooses to seek death in some murder cases but not in others,” they wrote in one recent court filing.tweeting a day after the attack
The lawyers said it seemed arbitrary for the U.S. Justice Department to “spare some defendants but single out Mr. Saipov, a Muslim immigrant, for the death penalty even though their culpability is arguably greater.”
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