New York truck attacker avoids death sentence as jurors unable to agree

Split between jurors means convicted killer of October 2017 attack gets an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole

A jury said on Monday that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death sentence on an Islamist extremist who killed eight people using a speeding truck on a popular New York City bicycle path.

Jurors told a federal judge they were unable to agree on whether Sayfullo Saipov should live or die for the October 2017 attack.