Man who killed 8 in terrorist attack gets 10 life sentences
Posted on AllSides May 17th, 2023
NEW YORK -- An unrepentant and defiant Islamic extremist received 10 life sentences and another 260 years in prison on Wednesday for killing eight people with a truck on a bike path in Manhattan on Halloween in 2017, as a judge decried his "callous and cowardly" crimes. "The conduct in this case is among the worst, if not the worst I've ever seen," said U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, as he announced a sentence designed to underscore the severity of the terrorist attack Sayfullo Saipov claimed he carried out...