The man who planned and carried out a 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack in Manhattan deserves multiple life sentences 'to provide just punishment' for killing eight people, federal prosecutors say.
Investigators work around the wreckage of a Home Depot pickup truck a day after it was used in a terror attack in New York, Nov. 1, 2017.Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbekistan native who planned and carried out a 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack on the west side of Manhattan, deserves multiple life sentences "to provide just punishment" for killing eight people, federal prosecutors said Monday in a sentencing memorandum to the judge.
"The defendant's conduct before, during and after his attack warrants a sentence that reflects the extraordinary depravity of his crimes. The government respectfully requests that the court impose the maximum statutory penalty on each count of conviction," prosecutors said in the sentencing memorandum.Saipov was a "proud terrorist" who "chose to come to this country and then fight for an enemy," prosecutor Amanda Houle said during the trial.
The defense conceded that the grief of the victims' families "was entirely caused by Sayfullo Saipov," but defense attorney David Patton argued it was not necessary to kill him, "not for our safety or anyone else's and not to do justice." A woman hugs her dog after placing flowers she brought to a makeshift memorial that honors victims of an attack who were struck and killed by a rental truck driven by Sayfullo Saipov at Chambers and West Streets in New York, Nov. 4, 2017.Saipov also killed five friends from Argentina who were in New York celebrating the 30th anniversary of their high school graduation: Hernan Mendoza, Alejandro Pagnucco, Hernan Ferruchi, Diego Angelini and Ariel Erlij.
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