By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 05:21:05 | Updated at 2024-11-21 10:20:49
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Judge allows death penalty if suspect accused of killing four college students in Idaho is convicted
https://justthenews.com/ ^ | 11/20/2024 | misty severi
Posted on 11/20/2024 9:05:07 PM PST by bitt
The death penalty is only applicable in Idaho if the perpetrator is convicted of first degree murder or conspiracy to commit first degree murder. A jury also has to unanimously agree to impose the death penalty.
The judge overseeing the trial of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger on Tuesday ruled that prosecutors can seek the death penalty if he is convicted of killing four college students in August.
Kohberger is accused of killing college students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin by fatally stabbing them in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho, in November of 2022.
Defense attorneys for Kohberger, who has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges, tried to convince District Court Judge Steven Hippler to rule out the death penalty last month. The lawyers argued that capital punishment goes against "contemporary standards of decency," according to Fox News.
Hippler on Tuesday said capital punishment is constitutional, and that the defense did not come up with an alternative method of execution in Idaho, per NBC News.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Idaho; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bryankohberger; idaho
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