Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at the Tops supermarket in 2022.
The Justice Department says it will seek the death penalty for the white gunman who killed 10 African Americans in 2022 at grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., in a racially motivated massacre.
In a new court filing submitted Friday, federal prosecutors say that the circumstances of the crimes “are such that, in the event of a conviction, a sentence of death is justified.” This marks the first time that the Justice Department under the Biden administration has sought the death penalty in a new case.
The gunman, Payton Gendron, pleaded guilty in New York state court last year to the May 2022 killings at the Tops supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo.
