It has been a decade since a jury in New York last considered the death penalty.
Jurors on Monday will be asked to consider the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov,five years ago in bid, prosecutors said, to impress a terrorist group.
Jurors will return to court on Monday to hear more evidence to help them decide whether he should be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison. 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.
In 2001, just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal jurors in Manhattan declined to impose a death sentence on two men convicted in the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The men's lawyers had urged jurors not to make the defendants into martyrs. The Islamic extremist bowed his head as he heard the verdict in a Manhattan courtroom just a few blocks from where the attack ended.
He emerged from his truck yelling “God is great,” in Arabic, with pellet and paintball guns in his hands before he was shot by a police officer who thought they were real firearms. Even before the trial, there was no doubt Saipov was a killer. Saipov's defense lawyer, David Patton, had not denied his client killed eight people and seriously injured others in the attack in the shadow of the World Trade Center.
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