Bryan Kohberger Is Asking For The Death Penalty Back

Bryan Kohberger traded a capital murder trial for a deal that took the death penalty off the table. He is now telling the State of Idaho it is welcome to come put it back.

He is also the man who stood in an Ada County courtroom and said guilty four separate times, once for each of the four University of Idaho students he admitted killing.

This episode takes his claim seriously enough to actually test it. We go through the petition he filed to undo his conviction, the argument he appears to be making, and the extraordinary standard he would have to clear to get anywhere. We look at what he left out of the filing, which turns out to matter more than what he put in.

Then we go back to the day itself. Who was with him. How long he and his lawyers had been going through the evidence before he walked into that room. And the specific sworn statement he made to the judge that his new claim runs directly into.

The families of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were split on the plea deal when it happened. Some of them made peace with it because a prosecutor put a promise in writing about exactly this kind of filing. That letter is where this story turns from a stunt into something worth being angry about.

Kaylee Goncalves' family issued a response within hours that dismantles the petition line by line, and gives him a description that has stuck.

Drawn from the court docket, the filings, and dated reporting on the University of Idaho case.

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