NEW YORK―President Donald Trump called Thursday for the man charged over the New York truck attack to be executed, as a picture emerged of an Islamic State group sympathizer radicalized after struggling with life in America. Trump had said he was considering sending Sayfullo Saipov, 29, to the military’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center, but backed off the idea in a blast of tweets calling for the death penalty. DEATH PENALTY!” AFPSaipov, an immigrant from Uzbekistan, is now in a detention facility on terrorism charges. The second can be punishable by death, but a capital punishment case would be extremely rare in New York, which has abolished the death penalty at the state level. “I’m not someone who believes in the death penalty,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio, reflecting the views of many New Yorkers.

Source: The Standard November 03, 2017 01:52 UTC