A New York jury could not unanimously decide on the death penalty for convicted murderer Sayfullo Saipov, so he will automatically receive a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the October 2017 bike path murders.
Saipov, a 35-year-old Islamic extremist, was found guilty on all 28 counts — eight counts of murder, 18 counts of attempted murder, and other terrorism-related charges — in January.
The use of the death penalty is extremely rare in New York. The state no longer has capital punishment and last executed a prisoner in 1963. If Saipov had received capital punishment, it would have been the first federal use of the death penalty in Manhattan since the Cold War espionage trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953.
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