The man who was convicted of trying to kill bestselling author and free speech advocate, Salman Rushie, has now learned his sentence. On Friday, in Chautauqua County (New York) court, the judge handed down the maximum sentence to the attacker, Hadi Matar, who repeatedly slashed Rushie with a knife in an attempt to kill him, in the moments before the author was set to speak during at a 2022 cultural event in New York state. Rushdie was at first in critical condition, and the horrific attack left him blind in his left eye.
During sentencing, the judge told the would-be assassin, who was convicted of attempted murder in Feb. for the attack at a Western NY, culture center called the Chautauqua Institution, the reason he was imposing the full sentence requested by prosecutors:
Judge David W. Foley, who presided over the case in Chautauqua County court, told Mr….
