Death penalty phase of trial starts for NYC bike path killer

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor urging a death sentence has promised to make jurors understand the emotional ramifications of a man’s vow to kill as many people as he could in a terrorist strike on a Manhattan bike path. Assistant U.S. Attorney Amanda Houle on Monday launched the death penalty phase of the trial of Sayfullo Saipov by telling jurors that some evidence from the Halloween 2017 attack will be hard to see and hear. His attorney, though, urged jurors to let him spend life in prison, saying they should not seek death like him. Saipov recently was convicted in the attack in which he ran down bicyclists with a truck.