“If he can plead guilty and still receive the death penalty, DO it.”
Utah is a blue state and they don’t carry out many executions. So he’s in the right place. The state has only carried out eight executions since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, and only one person has been executed in the state since 2000. Even though a killing in an assassination atmosphere is especially heinous when it involves religious and political implications as the motive, the state will look at the fallout of the crime and will let him into life with possibility of parole in my mind and their history. Seems a shame to let the crime run amok that could be repeated because the perps see it has ways out of the need for justice for the wrong reasons.
wy69
I am against the death penalty, except when a person convicted of murder kills again after they are in prison. Death penalty cases just drag on and on with the death penalty almost never carried out anyway.