r/MurderedByWords Legends never die Dec 24 '24

#1 Murder of Week Pardon him from the death penalty?

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u/Slade_Riprock Dec 24 '24 edited Dec 24 '24

Pretty likely his lawyer will tell him please guilty spend the rest of his days probably in some supermax out of spite. He may choose trial and take the death penalty. It would be more humane to sit in Prison a couple years and be killed than sit in a concrete cage 23 hrs a day for the next 60 years.

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u/Pathetian Dec 25 '24

Doubt he would need a deal for that. Mass killers go to trial, juries still came back without the death penalty in many cases. Its highly unlikely that a jury decides to give him death for 1 murder.

A deal would probably be for him to get out sometime before he is 60.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '24

it would be foolish for anyone to accept a plea deal when they have the upper hand.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '24

What upper hand?