A federal prosecutor urged a New York jury to sentence Sayfullo Saipov to death as the penalty phase of his trial began on Monday, saying his execution would be the only just punishment after he killed eight people in his 2017 attack on a Manhattan bike path.
only that he had intended to die a martyr that day, not to join Islamic State as charged.
His defense team showed the jurors pictures of Saipov as a child with his family in his native Uzbekistan, telling them some of his relatives were traveling to New York to say they condemned his crimes but still loved him. Prosecutors said Saipov had threatened to slit the throats of the guards at the New York prison where he is currently held.
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