a federal jury this week decided the fate of 35-year-old New Jersey resident saifulo saipov the Uzbekistan native will be sentenced to life in prison for a 2017 terrorist attack that killed eight people on a New York City bike path prosecutors were seeking the death penalty but jurors deadlocked the law requires a unanimous verdict for capital punishment prosecutors say saipov drove a rental truck down a bike path on the West Side Highway on Halloween 2017 motivated by Islamic extremism committing the city's deadliest attack since 9 11 and also injured a dozen others lawyers argued saipov planned to continue his Rampage but was shot by an NYPD officer before reaching the Brooklyn Bridge the case was the first Federal death penalty trial under the Biden Administration and a rare case for New York where executions almost never happen a judge will set a date for the sentencing [Music] [Music]