A judge on Thursday refused to rule out the death penalty in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students in 2022.
Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger had sought to rule out capital punishment as an option in his upcoming murder trial, but the judge denied the request.
Attorneys for Kohberger argued that he was recently found to have autism spectrum disorder and that the death penalty would be “dehumanizing.”
Kohberger is charged with murder and other counts in the stabbing deaths of four students in an off-campus Moscow, Idaho, home where most of the victims lived on Nov. 13, 2022.
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