Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket - eviltoast
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for the white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.

  • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Out of pure academic curiosity, how is the death penalty part of this under federal jurisdiction?

    The article refers to federal hate crimes.

    There are federal crimes that include hate crimes and violation of civil rights, but from what I can tell in the list of federal capital crimes, neither of those appears to me to qualify as subject to the death penalty.

    I looked up Derek Chauvin as a base then realized he was never under threat of death penalty.