Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial
Death Penalty Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial Eugene Volokh | 7.27.2026 5:38 PM From today's decision in U.S. v. Gendron, by Judge Richard Sullivan, joined by Judges Joseph Bianco and Alison Nathan: Payton Gendron killed ten Black people in Buffalo, New York in an effort to spread racial hatred and incite violence. The government sought the death penalty on the "discharging a firearm to commit murder" charges, filing a notice of intent that listed various statutory aggravating factors justifying such a punishment.
- ▪Death Penalty Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial Eugene Volokh | 7.27.2026 5:38 PM From today's decision in U.S. v.
- ▪Gendron, by Judge Richard Sullivan, joined by Judges Joseph Bianco and Alison Nathan: Payton Gendron killed ten Black people in Buffalo, New York in an effort to spread racial hatred and incite violence.
- ▪The government sought the death penalty on the "discharging a firearm to commit murder" charges, filing a notice of intent that listed various statutory aggravating factors justifying such a punishment.
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Death Penalty Second Circuit Reinstates Death Penalty Charges in Buffalo Supermarket Federal Murder Trial Eugene Volokh | 7.27.2026 5:38 PM From today's decision in U.S. v. Gendron, by Judge Richard Sullivan, joined by Judges Joseph Bianco and Alison Nathan: Payton Gendron killed ten Black people in Buffalo, New York in an effort to spread racial hatred and incite violence. A grand jury subsequently indicted him on twenty-seven counts of (i) committing hate crimes resulting in death or involving an attempt to kill, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 249(a)(1)(B); (ii) discharging a firearm to commit murder, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
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