In a way I want him to plead guilty and save the taxpayers’ money. But on the other hand, I do NOT want the death penalty taken off the table.
He told his parents what he had done, and they were the ones who turned him in to law enforcement.
If he can plead guilty and still receive the death penalty, DO it. The woman who is his lawyer is a publicity hound. I watched her on the Kouri Richins trial, and she objects to everything. Just to get attention, in my opinion.
THE LONGER IT DRAGS ON-—THE MORE BILLABLE HOURS.
“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.
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