An ISIS recruit was convicted of plotting to behead a conservative American blogger for organizing a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest on Wednesday.

Jurors found David Wright, 28, from Massachusetts, guilty of all charges, including conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.

The 28-year-old who authorities say fell under the influence of ISIS faces up to life in prison for plotting to behead Pamela Geller.

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Geller said: 'I am deeply grateful to the jury. The evidence against Wright was quite clear. What is astonishing is that there isn't more general indignation in the mainstream media against someone who tried to kill me for exercising my freedom of speech.

'Instead, most Western media outlets have internalized the idea that the response to violent intimidation from Muslims is to do what they want, and conform our behavior to their sensibilities. That is the path of submission and subjugation. I refuse to take it.'

David Wright, 28, was convicted of plotting to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller and kill other Americans on behalf of the Islamic State group on Wednesday

In court Wright testified that he used Islamic State group propaganda to get attention but was just playing a role and never wanted to commit violence

Geller is shown during an interview at The Associated Press in New York. She was targeted by Wright because she organized a cartoon contest for drawings of Prophet Muhammad in 2015

Prosecutors said Wright, his uncle and a third man conspired to kill Geller because they were upset she organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Dallas, Texas, in 2015.

In May of that year, Wright met with his uncle Ussamah Rahim and Nicholas Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, for more than two hours on a secluded Rhode Island beach and discussed plans to kill Geller, according to the indictment.

Days later, Rahim told Wright he couldn't wait to attack Geller and decided instead to go after 'those boys in blue,' referring to police, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told jurors Wednesday.

Wright encouraged his uncle to attack police and die a 'martyr,' instructing him to destroy his cellphone and wipe all the data from his computer.

Who is Pamela Geller? Geller, 59, is known for her anti-Islamic writings on her blog Atlas Shrugs, which gained popularity after she posted Islamic cartoons in 2006. She famously opposed the construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center, and sponsored of the Draw The Prophet cartoon contest in Texas in 2015, which many viewed as offensive to the Muslim faith. She claims her blogging and campaigns are working against what she terms 'creeping Sharia' law in the U.S. Multiple groups have described Geller as Islamophobic. She is currently the leader of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Geller is pictured in a 2015 file photo Advertisement

That same day, Rahim was approached by officers in a Boston parking lot and was fatally shot after he pulled out a knife and moved toward them.

Authorities say Rahim received instructions about the plot to kill Geller from Junaid Hussain, an Islamic State member and hacker who was later killed in an airstrike in Syria.

Prosecutors say that Rahim then passed along Hussain's instructions to Wright.

The prosecutor said Wright wanted to wage additional attacks in the US and inflict more damage than was caused by the Boston Marathon bombing because, in his words, 'that was not sufficient.'

Wright told another person online that he was one of dozens of Islamic State fighters in the U.S. who were ready to act according to Siegmann.

The person Wright was chatting with was secretly working for the FBI and later testified in the trial.

During the cartoon contest, two other men opened fire outside and wounded a security guard before they were killed in a shootout with law enforcement assigned to guard the event.

The attack on Geller, who has spearheaded scores of events across the nation to decry Islamic extremism, was never carried out. She didn't testify at the trial.

Wright cried on the stand when he spoke of his uncle, insisting that he didn't think Rahim was serious about the attack.

Wright weighed more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms) in 2015 and spent much of his time playing video games.

He testified that he used Islamic State group propaganda to get attention but was just playing a role and never wanted to commit violence.

'I didn't want my uncle to get hurt. I didn't want law enforcement to get hurt,' Wright said. 'I lost someone who was very close to me because I was so deluded and self-centered that I couldn't see beyond my own need for attention.'

Prosecutors said Wright, his uncle and a third man conspired to kill blogger. The three men met on a beach in Rhode Island in May of 2015 to discuss the plans

Wright weighed more than 500 pounds in 2015 and spent much of his time playing video games

Wright's Attorney Jessica Hedges said that he found acceptance and an escape in the online world of the Islamic State group. As for the threats, Hedges said it was only talk. Prosecutors said Wright was the leader of the conspiracy and recruited his uncle and others to help him wage war on the U.S.

Wright's Attorney Jessica Hedges said that he found acceptance and an escape in the online world of the Islamic State group.

As for the threats, Hedges said it was only talk.

'In 2015, David felt very, very fat, very failed, and was living in a world of fantastical ideas,' Hedges told jurors at the federal courthouse in Boston.

'He hid behind screens, looking for an escape, looking for a distraction from who he really was.'

Prosecutors said Wright was the leader of the conspiracy and recruited his uncle and others to help him wage war on the U.S.

Wright's uncle received directions about the plan to kill Geller from Junaid Hussain, an Islamic State group member and hacker who was later killed in an airstrike in Syria, prosecutors said.

A police officer stands near Wright's uncle Ussamah Rahim's home in June of 2015, in Everett, Massachusetts as it was being searched after Rahim was killed

Rahim had been under surveillance by terrorism investigators before he was killed in Boston

Wright conducted online research for guns, swords and tranquilizers that put people to sleep instantly.

He created a Twitter page seeking recruits for their 'martyrdom operation cell,' collected a trove of horrific Islamic State group documents and videos and created a manifesto warning that America's 'days are numbered,' prosecutors said.

Wright's uncle bought three large knives - one for each of them - for their attack on Geller, authorities say.

Wright 'was committed to ISIS, and knew exactly what he was doing,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann told jurors, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.

The third man accused in the plot, Nicholas Rovinski, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy charges and faces 15 to 22 years in prison.

Rovinski, of Warwick, Rhode Island, testified against Wright, telling jurors that Wright said Geller 'deserved to be beheaded' because she insulted Mohammad.