New York truck attacker escapes death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : If Saipov had received the death penalty, then it could only have been carried out if the moratorium was lifted or under a future president.
43% : Experts had suggested it showed that the Justice Department appeared to favor capital punishment for terror offenses only.
42% : New York has abolished the death penalty at the state level, last executing a defendant in 1963.
40% : Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in an attack in New York in October 2017, escaped the death penalty after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict
39% : An Uzbek man who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York six years ago will spend the rest of his life in jail after jurors were unable to agree on the death penalty Monday.
35% : Prosecutors had argued for capital punishment for Sayfullo Saipov, who was convicted in January of several murder and terrorism charges over the attack on October 31, 2017.
32% : That was despite Biden's opposition to the death penalty and a moratorium on all federal executions, announced by Attorney General, Merrick Garland in July 2021.
24% : His trial was the first federal prosecution during Joe Biden's presidency in which the Justice Department (DoJ) sought capital punishment.

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