Kohberger can't avoid death if convicted: Opinion
Left: Bryan Kohberger; Top Right: Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Bottom Right: Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen

Bryan Kohberger, the murder suspect, has been captured in a mugshot, while images of the four victims involved in the Idaho University Student murder case have been provided by the Kernodle family. These include Bryan Kohberger on the left, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin on the top right, and Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen on the bottom right.

If Bryan Kohberger is found guilty of murdering four Idaho college students in their off-campus apartment, it is highly unlikely that he will escape the death penalty. Typically, perpetrators of multiple horrific murders do not avoid this outcome in states where capital punishment is applicable.

The crimes in question took place on November 13, 2022, when Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed. All four victims were students at the University of Idaho. Kohberger was apprehended six weeks after the murders at his parents’ residence in Pennsylvania. He is now facing charges of four counts of first-degree murder.

Kohberger’s legal team, in an effort to save his life if convicted, have filed a host of pretrial motions challenging the imposition of the death penalty and manner in which it is carried out.

Recently, an Idaho trial court sitting in Ada County denied all of Kohberger motions as they related to the death penalty.

Kohberger’s defense team had sought to remove the death penalty as a possible punishment. Kohberger’s attorneys argued that forcing inmates to wait for years on death row and the methods available for prisoners to be executed in Idaho both constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Attorneys also argued Idaho’s death penalty laws violate an international treaty banning the torture of prisoners.

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