Elie Honig: There Can Be No Death Penalty for the Suspected WHCD Shooter

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HONIG: "So, there is no potential death penalty here because you can only inflict the death penalty if someone is killed. There was not a murder here. Thankfully, nobody was killed, so there can be no death penalty. However, if you look at the crimes that this defendant is already charged with, they carry a potential life max. And if you look at some of the other charges that I expect to see in this case, they too carry a potential life max, if this person is convicted. Whether he pleads guilty, whether he‘s convicted eventually by a jury, I think it is very, very likely he will get a life sentence. And in the federal system, Jess, a life sentence is a life sentence. Sometimes in state systems, you‘ll hear about someone getting life and then getting parole. There‘s no parole in the federal system."