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Originally Posted by cheevers
I am no fan of the death penalty, but if this does not merit it then how can any prosecutor argue another crime would?
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In this case, medical experts agreed that the guy was developmentally challenged due to fetal alcohol syndrome. The jury found that those mitigating circumstances were significant enough to take the death penalty off the table.
Due to being mentally disabled, if he had been sentenced to death, there would have been endless and expensive legal challenges. He likely never going to get executed, at least not for a really long time.