Bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov convicted on all counts in 2017 jihad attack

ISIS inspired  terrorist who killed eight people on the West Side Highway bike path in New York City in 2017 was finally convicted on all counts in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday.

Sayfullo Saipov, 34, an Islamic terrorist originally from Uzbekistan, used a truck to ram bicyclists, killing 8, was convicted on 28 counts and this paves the way for the death penalty phase of the trial to begin. [H/T New York Post.] Jurors will now decide whether this POS should be put to death or allow to languish in a prison cell with his prayer rug and Koran for the remainder of his life.

Being that he was on trial in uber liberal New York City, my guess is he will get plenty of 'religious' reading done in the coming years in spite of the killing rampage he perpetrated in the name of Allah.

Survivors of the jihad attack testified at the trial and described the horrific and violent scene that resulted from Saipov driving a rented flatbed truck and plowing into as many people as he was able to run over in lower Manhattan on the October 31st afternoon in 2017. Family members spoke of how they witnessed their loved ones being struck by this radical Muslim lunatic as they were left bloodied and dying along the bike path.

The Post reported how Ann-Laure Decadt, who was killed, had been riding a rented bike with her family who had traveled from their native Belgium on vacation to celebrate a number of milestone birthdays. The family members who survived testified that they heard the horrible sound of an engine on the path behind them just before Ann-Laure was mowed down.

Seconds later, they saw her lifeless body on the ground, the family testified.

“Her gaze was lifeless,” her sister Friedel testified. “She just stared up into the air, and there was lots of blood gushing out of her mouth.”

In their opening and closing arguments to the jurors, federal prosecutors described the grisly violence, but also repeatedly told them Saipov carried out the attack in an effort to join ISIS. He asked that an ISIS flag be hung in his hospital room after the scumbag killed those innocent people.

“The Islamic State shall endure,” Assistant US Attorney Jason Richman said in his closing statement Tuesday.”These were his words to tell the world why, why he attacked this city, why he targeted innocent civilians, why he turned a bike path into his battlefield, why he ran them over without mercy.”

“The defendant caused all of this death and destruction to become a soldier of the caliphate, a part of ISIS. The Islamic State shall endure,” he added.

Nine of the 28 counts carry a potential death sentence but again, it's New York City and it's a very good possibility that this piece of human excrement will become a ward of the state in prison where he will demand and receive Halal meals and prayer time 5 times a day. If he should get a death sentence, he will be an old man by the time it's carried out, if it's carried out at all. 

Anyway, the "penalty phase" will be happening in the coming days. His lawyers will try to make this turd appear human and sympathetic in an effort to spare his miserable life.

But why spare his life when he said that he intended to be killed and ascend into heaven as a martyr: 

A shahid, or martyr, in the Islamic context is one who kills for Allah and is killed in the process (cf. Qur’an 9:111).

Saipov was charged with 26 federal racketeering charges for carrying out the attack in an attempt to join ISIS. Eight of those racketeering charges carry a potential death penalty. And while Saipov's lawyer said that he didn't intend to join ISIS but merely wanted to die to ascend to heaven, why not let him have his way?

Give him what he wants and let him ascend--it's the right thing to do.

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