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Washington (AFP) - Federal prosecutors said Friday they will seek the death penalty for a man convicted in the racially motivated murders of 10 Black people in a New York supermarket in 2022. The move was a first for the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election in November and who pledged during his 2020 campaign to work towards abolishing capital punishment at the federal level. White supremacist Payton Gendron, 19, was sentenced to life in prison in February 2023 by a court in the state of New York after pleading guilty to racially motivated murders...
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Washington (AFP) - Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys militia, was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Tuesday for his role in the 2021 attack on the US capital, the stiffest sentence handed out so far. "That day broke our previously unbroken tradition of peacefully transferring power," US District Judge Timothy Kelly said during a nearly four-hour sentencing hearing in the nation's capital. Prosecutors had sought a 33-year prison term for Tarrio, who was not in Washington on January 6, 2021 but was accused of directing the military-style assault on the Capitol by mem...
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New York (AFP) - An Uzbek man who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York six years ago will spend the rest of his life in jail after jurors were unable to agree on the death penalty Monday. Prosecutors had argued for capital punishment for Sayfullo Saipov, who was convicted in January of several murder and terrorism charges over the attack on October 31, 2017. But Saipov received a life term without the possibility of parole after the jury in Manhattan federal court failed to unanimously agree on the death sentence. Saipov, now 35, drove a rented pickup truck down a Manhattan bike p...
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New York (AFP) - A white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York state last year was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday during an emotional hearing that saw a man lunge for the shooter. Payton Gendron, 19, had pleaded guilty to a state charge of domestic terrorism motivated by hate over the massacre in Buffalo in May, which carries a mandatory penalty of life without parole. The convicted teen, who told the court he was "very sorry" for his actions, still faces dozens of federal hate crime charges that could see him receive the death p...
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New York (AFP) - A man in court lunged Wednesday at the shooter who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York state last year, disrupting the sentencing hearing for the self-declared white supremacist. Payton Gendron, 19, was escorted out of the courtroom after someone in the audience rushed at him and was restrained by security guards during emotional statements by relatives of victims. The hearing was paused for several minutes before resuming. Earlier, Simone Crawley, the granddaughter of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield, called Gendron "a cowardly racist." K...
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New York (AFP) - US prosecutors argued Monday that an Uzbek man who killed eight people in New York six years ago should be executed, despite President Joe Biden's opposition to the death penalty. The sentencing trial of Sayfullo Saipov is the first federal prosecution during Biden's tenure in which the Justice Department (DoJ) is seeking capital punishment. Although the Biden administration declared a moratorium on all federal executions, if Saipov receives the sentence he could be put to death, either under a future president or if the moratorium is lifted. The same 12 jurors who last month ...
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New York (AFP) - President Joe Biden promised to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes, but the US government is due to argue, beginning Monday, that an Uzbek man should get the death penalty for killing eight people in New York half a decade ago. The same 12 jurors who last month convicted Sayfullo Saipov of several murder and terrorism charges will decide whether he should be jailed for life or sentenced to death. Although the Biden administration declared a moratorium on all federal executions, if Saipov receives the sentence he could be put to death, either under a future president...
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Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - An American woman who converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, leading an all-female military battalion, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a US court Tuesday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, who grew up on a farm in Kansas, was given the maximum sentence by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema after pleading guilty to terror charges. "You're obviously a very intelligent woman," Brinkema told Fluke-Ekren in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. "There's no question that you were providing material support to a terrorist organization," the judge sa...
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Washington (AFP) - US actor Jussie Smollett was sentenced to almost five months in prison Thursday after being found guilty of falsely telling police he was the victim of a racist and homophobic hate crime in 2019 -- an attack prosecutors said he himself staged. The gay 39-year-old African-American was found guilty in December of "planning" the fake assault by paying two Nigerian brothers $3,500, and of lying to police in his depositions. "You really crave the attention and you wanted to get the attention," Chicago Judge James Linn told the former "Empire" star as he read out the sentence. He ...
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New York (AFP) - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez's brother was sentenced to life in prison by a New York judge Tuesday for large-scale drug trafficking after a trial that implicated the leader of the Central American country. Tony Hernandez, 42, was found guilty in October 2019 on four counts -- including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, possessing machine guns and making false statements. Judge P. Kevin Castel said a life sentence for the former Honduran congressman who trafficked more than 185 tons of cocaine into the United States, some branded with his initial...
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