Death penalty for man charged with New York attack, says Trump
By Reuters
02 November 2017 |
2:02 pm
U.S. President Donald Trump has called for the death penalty on Twitter for an Uzbek immigrant accused of plowing a truck down a New York City bike path, adding that he would also consider sending him to military prison Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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