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Unconstitutional Kohberger defense moves to strike death penalty

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

"Unconstitutional? Kohberger Defense Moves to Strike Death Penalty" #Kohberger #DeathPenalty #unconstitutional The Bryan Kohberger case has taken a dramatic turn as his defense team gears up for trial. With the prosecution seeking the death penalty, Kohberger's lawyers are working overtime to save him from death row. But what strategies are they employing to sway the jury and secure a more lenient sentence?

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0:00.0

And to the final point I want to bring up, which is the remedy here.

0:04.0

You know, they're asking that the death penalty be struck because these methods are unconstitutional,

0:10.0

but that's not how it works.

0:11.0

If you show that one method is unconstitutional, part of the reason you have to present a viable,

0:17.0

readily implemented alternative is so that the state can then use that method for the execution.

0:23.6

You don't get to at the beginning short circuit the whole thing and say death is off the table

0:29.6

because the current method is unconstitutional.

0:32.6

As I said before, the method could change.

0:35.6

And so if they came in and they had evidence and they

0:37.6

could show that there was another method that's not lethal injection, that's not firing squad,

0:41.7

that severely or significantly reduces the pain and it's readily implemented, the answer isn't

0:47.3

to strike it, definitely completely, it's to say, okay, you can move forward with the trial.

0:53.8

We can see if he's sentenced to death, but you can't use those two methods to do it.

0:58.1

I want to bring in Michael Lashir.

0:59.6

He is a debt penalty.

1:00.7

So, you know, interesting points of view.

1:04.1

Sandra Preston from the chat, I wanted to just read this because they thought the same on Richard

1:09.7

Allen.

1:10.1

Here is my huge concern. Who are you people

1:12.2

to convict someone? This is the United States of America and you were innocent to proven

1:16.2

guilty. Sandra, you're 100% right. However, you're right. This is the United States of America

1:22.4

and people are allowed to give their opinion without the addendum he's innocent to proven

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