If he is convicted and sentenced to lethal injection, Saipov would be the first federal defendant put to death from a New York case since Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953.
The truck Saipov rented reached a top speed of 66 miles per hour before crashing into a school bus near Stuyvesant High School with two children aboard, one of whom was badly injured, Li said.
"The man who did this was Sayfullo Saipov," Li said. Right after the attack the defendant proudly declared why: he did it for ISIS. The defendant killed to become a member of ISIS and he did it right here in New York." Prosecutors said Saipov picked New York City for the attack because he knew it's a busy, crowded city.
Had he not crashed into the bus, prosecutors said Saipov would have continued onto the Brooklyn Bridge. He chose Halloween in 2017 "because he knew there would be lots of people on the streets," Li said.
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