(NY Daily News) Multiple life terms in the federal supermax prison are possible for Sayfullo Saipov when he’s sentenced Wednesday on terrorism and murder charges for massacring eight and severely injuring 18 by plowing into them with a truck on the Hudson River Park bike path.
A Manhattan Federal Court jury convicted Saipov, 35, in January of 28 murder and terrorism charges for the gruesome Oct. 31, 2017, attack.
During the trial’s penalty phase, the jury decided against the death penalty, determining instead that Saipov should spend the rest of his life at ADX Florence in Colorado, the nation’s highest-security prison.
Of the 25 people set to read a victim impact statement at the proceeding, 23 will travel from Argentina and Belgium. Saipov intended to kill Americans to avenge Muslim people worldwide killed by the U.S., but most of his victims were tourists. Many of their loved ones testified at the trial.
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