NYC truck terror attacker to serve 8 consecutive life sentences
Sayfullo Saipov was sentenced Wednesday for his 2017 ISIS-inspired terror attack in New York City. Sayfullo Saipov, the ISIS-inspired attacker who was convicted of killing eight people earlier this year, was sentenced to eight consecutive life sentences on Wednesday. Saipov was convicted in January of all 28 counts he faced in connection with carrying out the deadly attack along a Manhattan bike path with a rented Home Depot truck . The Uzbekistan native was spared the death penalty after jurors deadlocked on sentencing for the nine charges he faced that were eligible for capital punishment and instead agreed to a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Judge Vernon Broderick noted the "sheer unrepentant nature" of Saipov before he imposed eight consecutive life sentences, plus 260 years and two concurrent life sentences. "The conduct in this case is among the worst, if not the worst, I've ever seen," Broderick said. "The eight pe...
