New York City truck attack terrorist escapes death penalty as jury fails to reach unanimous verdict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : A wealth of evidence, including Saipov's own words, connected the defendant to the crime, but the penalty phase of trial would determine whether a New York jury would find he should be executed, despite the deep-blue state's longstanding aversion to the death penalty.
43% : Garland imposed a moratorium on the death penalty in July 2021, pending what he described as a review of the department's "policies and procedures."
43% : "Serious concerns have been raised about the continued use of the death penalty across the country, including arbitrariness in its application, disparate impact on people of color, and the troubling number of exonerations in capital and other serious cases."
39% : Law enforcement shot him at the scene, before taking him to Bellevue Hospital for medical treatment.
36% : Saipov's family hails from Uzbekistan and two of his victims are from Belgium and Argentina, all countries without capital punishment, the paper noted.
35% : New York abolished the death penalty in 2004, but capital punishment is still available in federal courts, where Saipov had been tried.
29% : Despite his professed reservations about the death penalty, Attorney General Merrick Garland's Justice Department asked a jury to vote for the death of Saipov, whose case began during the Donald Trump presidency.
25% : Convicted New York City truck attack terrorist Sayfullo Saipov escaped the death penalty on Monday after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, as Empire State juries maintain their longstanding tradition against capital punishment.

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