{"id":2147713,"date":"2024-01-12T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-seeks-death-penalty-for-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-first-one-under-biden-admin\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:50:45","slug":"doj-seeks-death-penalty-for-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-first-one-under-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-seeks-death-penalty-for-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-first-one-under-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ seeks death penalty for Buffalo shooter, first under Biden admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-seeks-death-penalty-for-buffalo-supermarket-shooter-first-one-under-biden-admin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2147713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Payton Gendron arrives\u2063 for a\u2063 hearing at the Erie County \u2064Courthouse on \u2063May 19, \u20632022 in Buffalo, New York. (Photo by Scott Olson\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/sophia-flores\">Sophia Flores<\/a><br \/>12:09 PM \u2013Friday, January 12, \u20632024<\/h2>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have announced that they\u200b will seek\u2062 the \u2064death penalty for Payton Gendron, the man who pleaded guilty to killing 10 people in a grocery store back in 2022.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Justice Department announced in a filing that they will seek\u2062 the death penalty for the racially-motivated \u2062Tops Supermarket shooter. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cUnited States believes the circumstances \u2064in Counts 11-20 of \u200cthe Indictment are such\u200c that, in the event of a conviction, a sentence of death is justified,\u201d the filing \u2064said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPayton Gendron\u2063 expressed bias, hatred, and contempt toward Black persons and his animus toward Black persons played a role,\u201d the filing continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u206420-year-old, who is currently serving a life sentence, pleaded guilty to state charges of murder and \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-files-federal-hate-crime-charges-against-buffalo-mass-shooting-suspect\/\" title=\"DOJ Files Federal Hate Crime Charges Against Buffalo Mass Shooting Suspect\">hate-motivated domestic terrorism<\/a> in November\u2063 of 2022. However,\u200b he had pleaded guilty \u200bonly\u2062 under the condition that \u201cprosecutors would agree not to seek the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York, the state where the shooting occurred, does not have capital punishment. Nonetheless, the\u2062 Justice Department \u200dtook the opportunity to seek the death\u200b penalty\u2062 in a separate federal hate crimes case.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time under Attorney\u200c General \u2063Merrick Garland\u2019s leadership that \u2062the Justice Department is pursuing\u2064 capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Garland \u2062has only perused two\u2063 death penalty cases in the\u200c past. One against Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people with \u200da \u200dtruck on a \u2064bike \u200cpath in 2017, and one against\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooter-found-guilty-of-all-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Bowers<\/a>, \u200bthe Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooter in 2018. However, both\u200c cases \u2062occurred under \u2064former President\u200c Donald\u2062 Trump while\u200d he was in office.<\/p>\n<p>A jury had decided not to sentence Saipov\u2064 to death,\u2064 while Bowers \u2063got the death penalty. The cases were carried over from the Trump \u2064administration once Biden took the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2062 2021, Garland then issued a moratorium on\u2063 the death penalty, essentially\u2062 halting any further federal \u200cexecutions. The order remains in place to this day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe Department\u2063 of Justice \u2063must ensure that everyone in the federal criminal justice \u200csystem is not \u2063only afforded the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and \u200dlaws of the United States, but is also treated fairly and humanely,\u201d said Attorney General Garland. \u201cThat obligation has special force in\u200b capital cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>President \u2064Joe Biden is an\u200b outspoken opposer of capital punishment. \u200cHe has\u200c called\u200d for\u200d it to end indefinitely and suggests that convicted criminals should \u201cinstead serve life sentences \u2064without probation or\u200b parole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing 10 innocent people. He decided \u2064to carry out the shooting\u2062 at\u200c a \u200bTopps Supermarket \u200bin Buffalo, New York, since he purportedly \u201cknew it had a predominantly Black \u2063demographic.\u201d \u2064 <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI did a\u2064 terrible thing that day. \u200bI shot people \u200cbecause they were\u2063 Black,\u201d Gendron\u2064 said in court.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On that \u200cday, he murdered Roberta Drury, Pearl Young,\u2064 Hayward \u2064Patterson, \u200bRuth Whitfield, Celestine Chaney, \u200bAaron W Salter\u200d Jr.,\u2064 Andre Mackniel, \u2064Marcus Morrison, Katherine\u200c Massey and Geraldine Talley.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Memoriam<br \/>May \u206214, \u20632022<\/p>\n<p>Roberta Drury<br \/>Heyward Patterson<br \/>Ruth Whitfield<br \/>Aaron Salter<br \/>Celestine Chaney<br \/>Pearl \u2062Young<br \/>Andre\u200b Mackneil<br \/>Geraldine Talley<br \/>Margus \u2063Morrison<br \/>Katherine\u200b Massey <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/glqSA8NpRQ\">pic.twitter.com\/glqSA8NpRQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2063PUSH Buffalo (@PUSHBuffalo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PUSHBuffalo\/status\/1657612741815803905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Response from \u200cMark Talley\u200d outside the\u200c courthouse.\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WGRZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WGRZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wVplRdkKWY\">pic.twitter.com\/wVplRdkKWY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2062 Robert Hackford\u2064 (@Robert_Hackford) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Robert_Hackford\/status\/1745851445226705135?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>However,\u2062 some \u200dwere not happy with the news of Gendron\u2019s capital punishment. Mark \u200bTalley,\u2064 the\u200d son of shooting victim Geraldine Talley, believes the death\u200b sentence would let the racially-motivated shooter get \u201coff \u2062the \u2062hook\u201d for the \u2064crimes\u2062 he committed in taking innocent lives. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI want him \u2062to\u2062 torture, I\u200d want him to \u200csuffer,\u2062 I \u2062want everything\u2063 he\u2063 ever loved to suffer. \u200dI want friends and family that he loved\u200d to suffer. I want \u200bpossibly\u2062 the \u2064worst thing that\u200b I can\u200d ever \u2064imagine to possibly happen to him,\u201d Talley asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, I\u2064 think he\u2019s getting off the hook getting the \u200bdeath \u200dpenalty because\u2064 he\u2064 won\u2019t get that suffering that\u2063 I \u2062want,\u201d he continued.\u2063 \u201cAs long as\u2064 I\u2019m alive, \u2064whether\u2064 God gives me 20, 30 \u200bor 60 years, I wanna \u2063be able \u2063to see him to suffer.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive \u2063breaking news blasts\u2063 directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe\u200c here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this \u2063post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Donald Trump is riding high \u200bin\u2062 Iowa after his Fox News Town Hall as he leads the poll by more\u2064 than 35-percent. Win Iowa \u200bBig, \u2063 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Senate Banking Committee holds a \u2063hearing on efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl in the\u200d U.S..<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The U.S. \u200cSupreme Court agreed to\u2063 review the Colorado Supreme Court\u2019s decision to disqualify Donald Trump from \u2064the ballot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Former Army \u2064Lieutenant Colonel and constitutional lawyer Ivan Raiklin tells \u2063One America News about a new effort to hold\u200b military leaders accountable for\u200d pushing \u200dforward with an\u2064 illegal mandate to administer \u2064COVID vaccines to military service members. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Google \u2062is set to go before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday over accusations \u200bthat its\u2063 processors infringe a computer scientist\u2019s\u2064 patents.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>OpenAI\u2062 and its financial backer \u200bMicrosoft were sued in Manhattan federal\u2064 court by a pair of nonfiction authors \u2063who say the companies misused their work\u2063 to train the AI models behind AI-based\u2063 services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>SpaceX sued a\u2063 U.S. labor \u200dboard to block its case \u2063accusing the company of \u2063illegally firing employees calling CEO Elon \u200cMusk \u201ca distraction and\u2062 embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>ChatGPT was well on \u200dits way \u2063to becoming a household name even before 2023\u200b kicked\u2064 off.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What are the reasons for federal prosecutors seeking the death penalty for Payton Gendron, despite\u200c his previously pleading guilty to state charges and receiving a life sentence?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Federal prosecutors have announced their intention to seek the death\u2064 penalty for Payton Gendron, a man who pleaded guilty to \u2063killing 10 people in a grocery store in 2022. The Justice Department filed a statement on Friday, stating that \u2063they believe a sentence of\u2064 death is justified \u2064in \u200dthis case.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting, which took place at a \u2062Tops\u200b Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, was racially motivated. Gendron, who expressed bias, hatred, and contempt towards Black individuals, targeted the \u200cpredominantly\u200c Black \u2063store. He is currently serving\u200d a life sentence after pleading guilty\u200d to state \u2063charges \u2064of murder and hate-motivated domestic\u200c terrorism in November 2022. However, this guilty plea was made under the condition that prosecutors would not seek the death \u200bpenalty.<\/p>\n<p>Since New York\u2063 does not have capital punishment, the Justice Department is \u200bpursuing\u2062 the death\u2062 penalty in a separate federal hate crimes case. This marks the \u2062first\u200d time under Attorney General Merrick Garland&#8217;s leadership that the department is seeking\u200c capital punishment. \u2064Garland has\u2063 only pursued two death \u200cpenalty cases in the \u2062past, both of which occurred\u2063 under former President \u200bDonald Trump&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden, an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, has called \u2062for an end to the \u200cpractice. He believes that convicted criminals should instead serve life sentences without probation or parole. In February 2023, Gendron\u2062 was sentenced\u2062 to life\u2062 in prison without parole for his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement \u2062of the death penalty for Gendron has \u200bgarnered mixed reactions. Mark Talley, the son of one of the shooting victims, \u200bexpressed his\u2063 desire for\u200c Gendron to suffer and advocated for torture and the suffering of Gendron&#8217;s loved ones. Talley believes that the death penalty would allow Gendron to escape the suffering he deserves for \u2063taking innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p>It is important\u2062 to note that these developments \u2062occur in the context of a moratorium on the death penalty\u200c issued by Garland in 2021, which effectively\u200b halted federal executions. Garland emphasized the need to ensure that\u2062 everyone in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disparate-impact-on-people-of-color-bidens-doj-halts-capital-punishment\/\" title=\"\u2018Disparate Impact On People Of Color\u2019: Biden\u2019s DOJ Halts Capital Punishment\">federal criminal justice system<\/a> is treated fairly and humanely, particularly in \u200ccapital cases.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2064 conclusion, the \u2064decision by federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Payton Gendron has sparked significant \u200bdebate \u2063and reactions. As the case progresses, the question of whether capital punishment is an\u2062 appropriate response to such crimes will undoubtedly remain a topic of discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payton Gendron, who admitted to killing 10 people, may face the death penalty as federal prosecutors have declared their intention. The announcement was made on Friday, January 12, 2024, by OAN&#8217;s Sophia Flores. 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