NYC bike path killer Sayfullo Saipov avoids death penalty

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Had a jury approved the death penalty, he would have become the first person executed in New York since 1963.
47% : Capital punishment is still legal on the federal level, but a jury must approve of it by unanimous decision.
44% : New York State abolished the death penalty in 1984, but Saipov was indicted by a federal grand jury.
39% : The man convicted of killing eight people on a New York City bike path avoided the death penalty on Monday after a jury announced they could not come to a unanimous decision.
39% : Prosecutors pleaded with jurors to reconsider the death penalty for the convicted terrorist, arguing that he was 'unremorseful' for the eight deaths in 2017.

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