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U.S. prosecutors said they are seeking the death penalty in the trial of an Uzbek immigrant accused of mowing down eight people with a truck on a New York City bike path last year.<\/p>\n
The death penalty was called for in documents on the case of Sayfullo Saipov, 30, who is charged with driving a rented pickup truck down a crowded bike path in Manhattan, not far from where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once stood.<\/p>\n
The attack on October 31, 2017 was the deadliest in New York since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings that brought down the twin towers.<\/p>\n
Saipov\u2019s attorneys in earlier court proceedings indicated he was willing to plead guilty if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty \u2014 something that U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly advocated in the days following the attack.<\/p>\n
Responding to the prosecution\u2019s decision on September 28, Saipov attorney David Patton said: \u201cWe think the decision to seek the death penalty rather than accepting a guilty plea to life in prison with no possibility of release will only prolong the trauma of these events for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said that they decided to seek the death penalty because of the multitude of victims and the \u201cheinous, cruel, and depraved manner\u201d of their killings, because Saipov showed no remorse, and because they believe he is likely to commit further violence if set free in the future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is the same jihadist who demanded an ISIS flag be hung in his hospital’s recovery room; ISIS later claimed him as a \u201csoldier\u201d of its so-called caliphate. Prosecutors say he had planned the attack to be carried it out on Halloween Day, because he believed the crowds outdoors would give him the opportunity to kill more people.<\/p>\n
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