Charlie Kirk's close friend calls for death penalty for convicted assassins
PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's close friend Jack Posobiec called Friday for convicted assassins to face the death penalty after spending five days in a Utah courtroom watching prosecutors present what he described as "an avalanche of evidence" against the man accused of murdering the Turning Point USA founder last year."I think the death penalty should be sought for any assassin," Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and former Navy intelligence officer, told reporters outside the Fourth District Courthouse in Provo, Utah, Friday. "I think assassins are a cancer on society itself."Such a change would require lawmakers to expand the aggravating factors that make murder cases eligible for the death penalty.
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PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's close friend Jack Posobiec called Friday for convicted assassins to face the death penalty after spending five days in a Utah courtroom watching prosecutors present what he described as "an avalanche of evidence" against the man accused of murdering the Turning Point USA founder last year."I think the death penalty should be sought for any assassin," Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and former Navy intelligence officer, told reporters outside the Fourth District Courthouse in Provo, Utah, Friday. "I think assassins are a cancer on society itself."Such a change would require lawmakers to expand the aggravating factors that make murder cases eligible for the death penalty. Under current laws in the federal system and the 27 states that have capital punishment, assassination cases aren't automatically death penalty eligible.WHY POLITICAL ASSASSINATION CASES AREN'T AUTOMATICALLY DEATH PENALTY ELIGIBLE"Specifically political assassinations, but really any assassination — it's an attack on our rights as free people," Posobiec said. "It's an attack on our rights under the First Amendment.
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- PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's close friend Jack Posobiec called Friday for convicted assassins to face the death penalty after spending five days in a Utah courtroom watching prosecutors present what he described as "an avalanche of evidence" against the man accused of murdering the Turning Point USA founder last year."I think the death penalty should be sought for any assassin," Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and former Navy intelligence officer, told reporters outside the Fourth District Courthouse in Provo, Utah, Friday. "I think assassins are a cancer on society itself."Such a change would require lawmakers to expand the aggravating factors that make murder cases eligible for the death penalty.
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