NYC bike path attacker to spend life in prison after jury fails to reach unanimous verdict on death penalty

A jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty for Sayfullo Saipov, who murdered eight people by mowing them down along a bike path in 2017.

Jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty in the trial of Sayfullo Saipov.  (St. Charles County, Mo., Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP, File) Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek man charged with using a truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween in 2017, listens to testimony from New York City Police officer Ryan Nash at his federal trial in New York City, U.S., January 9, 2023 in this courtroom sketch.  (REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo/File Photo) A law enforcement officer walks by a crime scene Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, after a driver mowed down people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York.  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) Sayfullo Saipov is seen exiting the rented truck allegedly used in the attack and is carrying what appears to be two pistols, one in each hand. (US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York) New footage released by the U.S Attorney's Office fo.r the Southern District of New York shows Sayfullo Saipov, center, in the moments just before he was shot by police. (US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York)

The jury, which was made up of nine men and three women, deliberated for nine hours over two days before informing the judge on Monday that they could not reach a unanimous decision in the penalty phase of Saipov's trial. 

His defense attorney, David Patton, argued that "meeting death with more death is not the answer," telling jurors that Saipov will be sentenced to one of the most "isolated, solitary" facilities in America in Florence, Colorado.