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The US authorities stated it could not search the demise penalty in its case towards Patrick Crusius, who allegedly killed 23 folks and wounded shut to 2 dozen others at a Walmart in El Paso greater than three years in the past.
Within the brief, one-line-filing, First Assistant US Legal professional Margaret Leachman didn’t embody a cause for declining the demise penalty.
In Texas, although, the district lawyer’s workplace filed a discover final summer season that it could search the demise penalty within the state’s case towards Crusius.
The federal authorities indicted Crusius on 90 fees, together with hate crimes and the usage of a firearm to commit homicide. The taking pictures, which passed off on August 3, 2019, marked one of many deadliest assaults on Latinos in fashionable US historical past.
In response to courtroom paperwork, jury choice within the federal case is about to start out in January 2024.
Again in September 2022, the US District Court docket for the Western District of Texas agreed to a January 17 deadline for the federal government to file discover on whether or not it could search the demise penalty.
The Texas case, in the meantime, has been slowed down by drama involving the previous district lawyer, Yvonne Rosales, who resigned in November. A trial date has not been set in that case.
Crusius has pleaded not responsible to the state capital homicide cost and the federal fees.
