Federal Prosecutors seek death penalty in supermarket killing case

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Federal Prosecutors in the United States said on Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 black people at a buffalo supermarket in 2022. teleSUR  Visit our website: https://www.telesurenglish.net/ Watch our videos here: https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en

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00:00 Federal prosecutors in the United States said on Friday that they will seek the death penalty

00:05 against a white supremacist who killed 10 black people at Buffalo supermarket in 2022.

00:12 Twenty-year-old Peyton Kendron is already serving a sentence of life in prison with

00:17 no chance of parole after he pledged guilty to state charges of murder and hate-motivated

00:22 domestic terrorism in a 2022 attack.

00:25 New York does not have capital punishment, but the Justice Department had the option

00:31 of seeking the death penalty in a separate federal hate crime case.

00:35 The decision marks the first time that President Joe Biden's Justice Department has authorized

00:40 a new pursuit of the death penalty.

00:43 On May 14, 2022, Kendron drove more than 320 kilometers from his home in rural Conklin,

00:52 New York, to a Tops friendly market in Buffalo's largely black East Side neighborhood, where

00:57 he shot 10 people and wounded three others.

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