(NY Daily News) Federal prosecutors rested their death penalty case Wednesday against Sayfullo Saipov, the radical Islamic terrorist who killed eight people on a lower Manhattan bike path.
The government wrapped up its case in Manhattan Federal Court after calling several family members of the people Saipov fatally mowed down on a West Side bike path in an ISIS-inspired truck attack on Oct. 31, 2017.
Saipov’s lawyers called Chris Synsvoll, a supervising attorney for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, as their first witness. They questioned him about ADX Florence in Colorado, the “supermax” prison, which is referred to as the Alcatraz of the Rockies because of its isolated location. Inmates there include Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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