Posted on 05/16/2022 8:07:24 PM PDT by hapnHal
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/nyregion/nyc-truck-terror-attack.html Shortly after Sayfullo Saipov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, was arrested on suspicion of using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path in 2017, President Donald J. Trump declared on Twitter, “SHOULD GET DEATH PENALTY.”
Ultimately, Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, authorized federal prosecutors to seek capital punishment should Mr. Saipov be convicted.
But with Mr. Saipov’s trial looming this fall, his lawyers have asked Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, appointed by President Biden, to withdraw the death penalty authorization, which would mean life imprisonment for Mr. Saipov if he were found guilty.
Mr. Garland has not signaled how he might decide. But the request comes at a time when lawyers representing federal capital defendants appear to have reason for hope: Since he took office, Mr. Garland, without fanfare, publicly withdrew government death-penalty requests in cases involving 16 defendants from around the country, according to the Justice
Department and federal court records.And in his 14 months as attorney general, Mr. Garland has not authorized local U.S. attorneys to seek the death penalty in any new cases, the Justice Department said.
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We don’t punish guilty people in this country. We just punish the innocent.
Anarcho-tyranny.
Trump’s statement would probably be claimed as ‘prejudicial’ and grounds for overturning any death penalty on appeal anyway.
Saipov‘s greatest desire should be to receive the death penalty.
That would earn him a trip to paradise and his 70 virgins.
Maybe he lost his faith.
I am all for jailhouse violence to resolve this, since it appears justice will not be served. A bar of prison soap shoved down his throat would do it.
Death penalty for Payton S. Gendron
YES/NO???
The Department of Justice under Democrats does nothing but left wing advocacy. Soros dominates the DOJ as much as he dominates the DA offices in LA,SF and NYC. Garland is far more likely to charge school parents for incorrect political attitudes than child molesters.
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