2nd Circ. Says Racist Mass Shooter Can Face Death Penalty

By Marco Poggio ( July 28, 2026, 6:11 PM EDT) -- The Second Circuit has determined that the federal government can seek the death penalty for a white supremacist, Payton S. Gendron, who murdered 10 Black people and wounded three others during a May 2022 mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, that he partly livestreamed....

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