MANHATTAN (CN) — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday asked a Second Circuit panel to reverse a lower court which denied the government’s requests for specific sentencing considerations of racial animus and incitement of violence in the Tops supermarket mass shooter’s upcoming hate crimes trial.
Payton Gendron, the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022, is currently serving out a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty in November 2022 to multiple state murder charges.
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