STATE & NATIONAL: Today, in the state of New York, 20 year old Payton Grendon has been sentenced to death in the final phase of the man who shot and killed 10 black men and women in Buffalo , New York. The new sentencing follows a concerns by the US Department of Justice involving Payton who stated in court that his reason for murdering 10 people was the fact that they were black people. By Anne M. Erbynstein
"United States believes the circumstances in Counts 11-20 of the Indictment are such that, in the event of a conviction, a sentence of death is justified,."--US Justice Department
The death penalty is what is being sought after in the case involving 20 year old Payton Glendon. Glendon was charged with the murders of 10 Buffalo, New York residents after he apparently sought out a black neighborhood for doing precisely as he ultimately did. Grendin used more than one fire arm when he opened fire upon shoppers at the () Grocers' in Buffalo, New York.
After having been informed of the plea entered by his attorneys last year during the opening moments of Payton Grendon's murder trial the US Justice Department determined Grenfon's murder crimes as being the cold and blatant murders of people based on race hate.
Today, in the New York federal court, tge US Justice Department indicated that the guilty verdict, given the weight of the intentional murders of his 10 innocent black victims, the conviction of Grendon woukd, subsequently, justify seeking the death penalty
In their initial statement citing the reasoning behind seeking the death penalty, as statements were added by US Justice Department's Sonya Zoghlin, DOJ referred to Grendon's intentional fatal injury inflicted upon 10 people and his intentional participation in an act that resulted in ending the lives of 10 innocent people , residents of Brooklyn , NY.
It has been in the last year that both Attorney General Merrick Garland and US President Joe Bide -- opposed to the death penalty-- have oerludteated the possibility of eliminating that phase of sentencing. Despite the ongoing discussions, the US Justice Department has not enacted a new law that would end the death penalty. While, also, purusing the case involving Grendon, the law would provide for the heinous act of blatant murders to be served a punishment that is, also, suitable, to the crime committed.
One family member of victim of Geraldine Talley commented in reference to the possibility of Pameyton zgrenfon receiving the death penalty. Mark Talley stated that itjidnhis impression is that the death Penslty gets Grendon off the hook adding that at tge very least, he won't live long enough to suffer
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