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☆ Opinion: Trump’s ridiculous terrorism claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Peter Bergen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Despite Trump’s much-vaunted travel ban, there was plenty of terrorism on his watch as the 45th president of the United States. Also, the most lethal antisemitic attack ever in the United States took place on October 27, 2018, when a terrorist killed eleven people at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. It seems, at least in Trump’s mind, that lethal acts of terrorism carried out by far-right terrorists don’t count as terrorism. Terrorism did not disappear with Trump, and his proposed “solution,” were he to become president again – amping up the Muslim travel ban – likely won’t accomplish much of anything. As Trump spends more time on the campaign trail, we will surely be seeing more factually challenged statements of this type.

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[1/2] Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. Saipov used a Home Depot rental truck to mow down people on a path along the Hudson River on Manhattan's West Side, according to prosecutors. He had hoped to the attack would help him gain membership in Islamic State, or ISIS, they said. Most of the people scheduled to speak at the hearing are traveling from Argentina and Belgium. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York and Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Will DunhamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Manhattan Bike Path Terrorist Avoids Death Penalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Corinne Ramey | Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A courtroom sketch shows Sayfullo Saipov using headphones to listen to the reading of the jury’s verdict on Monday in New York. Convicted Manhattan bicycle-path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov will serve life in prison without the possibility of release after jurors couldn’t agree on whether to sentence him to death, a blow to the Justice Department. Jurors said Monday that they were unable to reach the unanimous verdict needed to sentence Saipov to death, according to a spokesman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, which prosecuted the case.

☆ New York bike path attacker spared death penalty after jury deadlocks
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Jane RosenbergNEW YORK, March 13 (Reuters) - Sayfullo Saipov, the man convicted of killing eight people in an attack on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, was spared the death penalty on Monday after a federal jury deadlocked on whether he should be executed. Saipov's case is the first federal death penalty trial since President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021 after pledging during his campaign to abolish capital punishment. Jurors agreed that other aggravating factors weighed in favor of the death penalty, including that Saipov planned his attack in advance and carried it out to support Islamic State. Patton said in his closing argument that the death penalty was "not necessary to do justice." Prosecutors sought the death penalty despite U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland's July 2021 moratorium on federal executions so the Department of Justice could review its use of the punishment.

☆ New York U-Haul truck strikes 8 people, driver arrested
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Tyler Clifford | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Police in New York City have arrested a U-Haul truck driver accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians on Monday, injuring at least eight people before officers chased him down and stopped the vehicle, authorities said. But the New York Times, citing two senior law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity, gave the driver's name as Weng Sor. [1/3] A New York Police Department vehicle blocks a U-Haul rental vehicle, where according to media reports a man struck multiple people and the NYPD took the driver into custody, near the Battery tunnel in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., February 13, 2023. A video clip aired on WABC-TV showed a truck narrowly missing a pedestrian on a sidewalk, with a police cruiser in pursuit. Attorneys at the Saipov penalty proceedings briefly discussed the Brooklyn U-Haul rampage while the jury was out of the courtroom.

☆ Jury urged to sentence to death man who killed 8 on New York bike path
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jonathan Allen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The death penalty is something New Yorkers are rarely asked to consider; the state's death penalty was found unconstitutional in 2004, and federal capital cases are infrequent. Saipov's victims included tourists from Argentina and Belgium, both countries that have abolished the death penalty. The jurors will also hear from an employee of the Colorado prison where Saipov would spend a life sentence. Prosecutors said Saipov had threatened to slit the throats of the guards at the New York prison where he is currently held. "They will say that death begets death," Stern said of the prosecutors.

After finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty of committing murder with the goal of joining the militant group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, the Manhattan jury will return on Feb. 6 to consider whether the death penalty is appropriate punishment. The only point of contention between prosecutors and Saipov's lawyers was whether the defendant carried out the attack in order to join Islamic State, which the United States brands a terrorist organization. These included murder and attempted murder to gain entrance to Islamic State, providing material support to a terrorist organization, and damage or destruction of a motor vehicle. The U.S. Department of Justice said in September that it intends to seek the death penalty for Saipov, despite a moratorium on federal executions since July 2021 as the department reviews the practice. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler, Bill Berkrot and David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ NYC bike path killer convicted, could face the death penalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. An Islamic extremist who killed eight people with a speeding truck in a 2017 rampage on a popular New York City bike path was convicted Thursday of 28 federal crimes and could face the death penalty. A death sentence for Saipov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, would be an extreme rarity in New York. A federal jury in New York has not rendered a death sentence that withstood legal appeals in decades, with the last execution in 1954. Saipov's lawyers have said the death penalty process was irrevocably tainted by former President Donald Trump, who tweeted a day after the attack that Saipov "SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY!"

☆ Trial of Sayfullo Saipov, accused of killing 8 people in truck terror attack on NYC bike path, begins
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Opening arguments kicked off Monday in the federal trial of Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek immigrant who in 2017 plowed a rented pickup truck on a New York City bike path, killing eight people in its path of destruction. The Oct. 31 attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001. Police said Saipov, then 29, was inspired by the Islamic State terrorist group, or ISIS, in launching the attack. How the attack unfoldedIn the attack, Saipov rented a white Home Depot pickup truck in Passaic, New Jersey, and drove it into Manhattan where the streets were filling up with Halloween festivities. Investigators later found a note that Saipov left in the truck, claiming the attack was in the name of ISIS.

☆ Terrorism trial begins against accused New York bike path killer
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Jonathan Allen | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors were due to make opening statements on Monday in the trial of the man charged with using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween in 2017. It is the first federal death penalty trial under U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat who took office in January 2021. According to prosecutors, Saipov chose Halloween because he thought more people would be on the streets, and also planned to strike the Brooklyn Bridge. Prosecutors have told the court they intend to show the 12-member jury photographs and videos of the attack. Federal executions had resumed in 2020 under then U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, after a 17-year hiatus, with 13 executions carried out before Trump left office in 2021.

☆ New York Terror Attack Defendant Faces Rare Federal Death-Penalty Trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( James Fanelli | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An alleged terrorist charged with killing eight people in Manhattan will be on trial for his life beginning this week, in a rare case in which federal prosecutors are seeking a death sentence. Sayfullo Saipov , an Uzbek man who lived in New Jersey, is accused of intentionally driving a truck into a bicycle path in 2017 to run over cyclists and pedestrians. He was inspired by Islamic State to carry out the attack, prosecutors say. The presiding judge will begin questioning prospective jurors Tuesday.

☆ U.S. to seek death penalty against accused New York bike path killer
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. In a letter filed late Friday in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said Attorney General Merrick Garland "decided to continue to seek the death penalty" against Sayfullo Saipov, and that they notified the defendant's lawyers and victims. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterThe decision followed Garland's July 2021 moratorium on federal executions while the Department of Justice reviews its use of the death penalty. The Justice Department under Garland has defended the death penalty in some cases. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York Editing by Marguerita ChoyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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