Islamic terrorist Sayfullo Saipov deserves death for causing ‘overwhelming’ pain with NYC bike path attack: prosecutor

(NY Post) A federal prosecutor in Manhattan showed eight gruesome photos Tuesday at a sentencing hearing for West Side Highway terrorist Sayfullo Saipov — one of each of his victims — as jurors weigh whether to execute the mass murderer.

In her closing argument, Assistant US Attorney Amanda Houle also described in excruciating detail the anguish that family members of the victims face to this day.

She highlighted previous testimony from slain New Yorker Nicholas Cleves’s mother, who had told jurors that grief was seared into her and “consumed me and never left me since.”

“She’s just existing,” Houle said of the mother, Monica Missio.

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