Just announced they're seeking the death penalty. Per Moscow-Pullman Daily news:
Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson filed court documents today saying that his office will seek the death penalty against Bryan Kohberger in the Moscow quadruple murder case.
The documents were filed in 2nd District Court in Moscow this morning.
According to the documents, there are "statutory aggravating circumstances" in the case that led to this decision. Those statutory circumstances in Idaho code include:
- At the time of the murder, the defendant also committed another murder.
- The murder was "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel, manifesting exceptional depravity."
- The defendant "exhibited utter disregard for human life."
- "The murder was committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, arson, rape, robbery, burglary, kidnapping or mayhem and the defendant killed, intended a killing, or acted with reckless indifference to human life."
- The defendant showed "a propensity to commit murder which will probably constitute a continuing threat to society."
Kohberger faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary charge in the November stabbing deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.