ISIS Fanboy From Everett Gets 28 Years For Plotting To Behead A Conservative Blogger

BOSTON — An Everett man, found guilty this fall of spearheading a plot to cut off the head of a conservative female blogger who helped organize a controversial "Draw Prophet Muhammad" cartoon-drawing competition in 2015 that ended in violence, landed a 28-year prison sentence on Tuesday, according to federal court documents. 

David Daoud Wright, according to an Associated Press report covering his federal court sentencing Tuesday, had lobbied for a 16-year sentence, but Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young was not swayed by Wright's attorneys, who claimed their client deserved a chance for redemption. The blogger Wright and two other men had targeted, Pamela Geller, was present for Tuesday's sentencing and told the judge that "there is no assurance that anyone can give me that he [Wright] would not resume his quest to kill me and my relatives."