I hope they get the death penalty but their ages might work against that.
I read somewhere: “A new study by University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett shows a dramatic decline in the death penalty in Virginia over the last decade. Virginia has carried out the third highest number of executions since the 1970s and historically has executed a higher percentage of its death-row prisoners than any other state. However, Garrett said there are now fewer than two capital sentencing trials per year and Virginia juries have not imposed any new death sentences since 2011. Reviewing Virginia capital proceedings from 2005 to 2014, Garrett found that “[a]lmost all capital cases are now plea bargained,” with only 21 proceeding to a capital sentencing hearing. Juries imposed life sentences in more than half of those cases”
This is Virginia, if the trial is held in Montgomery County, he will get the death penalty. They might let her pled out, but that option might have went away with this today. The mood has been pretty ugly locally and this is not going to make it better.