New York cycle lane truck attacker avoids death sentence — Sayfullo Saipov will spend the rest of his life in prison for the terrorist attack which killed eight people in October 2017 cycling
The Islamic extremist who drove a truck into a New York City bike lane, killing eight people, has been spared the death penalty after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous decision.
The 34-year-old's lawyer David Patton told the court his client"murdered eight people" and believed it was his religious obligation to carry out the attack. He did not think he would survive, expecting to become a martyr, something the lawyer raised in court, arguing that imposing a death sentence would only serve to bestow the martyrdom Saipov had sought.
Saipov emerged from the vehicle shouting 'God is great' in Arabic and asked to hang an Islamic State flag above his hospital bed after he was shot by police at the scene.
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