The criminal case surrounding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk took another major turn Friday after a Utah judge rejected an effort by the accused gunman to remove the possibility of capital punishment from the case.
Tyler Robinson, the man charged with murdering Kirk during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University last September, remains eligible for the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
The ruling came after Robinson’s attorneys argued that prosecutors violated a court-imposed gag order and that the appropriate punishment would be to eliminate the death penalty as a possible sentence.
