In the United States, to impose the death penalty, a unanimous decision is required but not yet the debate is not over.
Vernon District Judge Broderick directed prosecutors and defense attorneys to consult how they should respond to the jury’s notewhich he read aloud in Manhattan federal court.
The judges sometimes they order jurors who initially have difficulty reaching a verdict to continue deliberating.
Crime in Manhattan: five dead Argentines
On October 31, 2017, Saipov crashed a U-Haul truck into bicyclists and pedestrians in Manhattan’s West Side bike lane and abandoned the vehicle while He was shooting a pellet gun and a paintball gun.. A New York police officer shot him and was arrested, it was officially reported.
Saipoy is an immigrant from Uzbekistan who, according to what he said in his first statements, carried out the attack to enter the jihadist group Islamic State (EI). In that attack, which coincided with Halloween, Five Argentines died and another was wounded.
The fatalities were identified as Hernan Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernan Ferruchi, and the wounded was Martin Marro.
They were all from the city of Rosario and they were traveling in New York celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation as high school students of the Polytechnic School of that Santa Fe city, specified the Argentine Foreign Ministry at the time of the attack.
Nicholas Cleves, 23, of New York, and Darren Drake, 32, of New Milford, New Jersey, were the two Americans killed.
