(Courthouse News) The Uzbek immigrant who carried out a truck attack on a lower Manhattan bike path in 2017, killing eight, will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. federal prison after a federal jury was divided on whether he should be the first killer in decades put to death in the state.
A death sentence in federal trials requires unanimity from all 12 jurors; otherwise the sentence is life in prison. Ten hours into deliberations, the jury produced a note Monday afternoon to inform U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick that they were deadlocked.
Broderick will formally impose the automatic sentence of life in prison at a later date.
