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If a jury were to find Robinson guilty, his legal team would be able to present mitigating factors to argue against the death penalty, such as any childhood trauma or mental health issues.<br \/>In the United States, juries impose death sentences, usually in a separate penalty phase of a trial after a defendant is convicted.<br \/>Juries must be unanimous to impose the death penalty, except in Florida, where eight of 12 jurors must agree on the death penalty, and in Alabama, where 10 of 12 jurors must support the death penalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Robinson, was charged with assassinating Kirk while the activist was speaking at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem.The prosecutor said Robinson was charged with aggravated murder because he put others at great risk of death, targeted Kirk for his political expression and knew children would witness the homicide.The prosecutor said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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