Jared Loughner Pleads Guilty, Won’t Face Death Penalty
The plea deal was accepted after a judge deemed Loughner capable of standing trial. Life in prison is expected for the 23-year-old who killed six and injured 13, including former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson last year.
Jared Loughner was found capable of standing trial and entered his guilty plea after his psychologist, Dr. Christina Pietz, testified that he fully understood what he did on Jan. 8, 2011.
Loughner pled guilty to 19 charges. Thirty others were dismissed. He will be sentenced on Nov. 15.
In a statement, Mark Kelly said he and wife Gabrielle Giffords supported the plea deal:
“The pain and loss caused by the events of January 8, 2011 are incalculable. Avoiding a trial will allow us - and we hope the whole Southern Arizona community - to continue with our recovery and move forward with our lives.”
Loughner only spoke when the judge addressed him directly:
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns: “Is that what you want to do? Have you made that choice to give up those rights and plead guilty?”
Jared Lee Loughner: “Yes, I understand.”
4. Some of Loughner’s victims attended the hearing.
Daniel Hernandez Jr., Gabrielle Giffords’s intern.
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- darbanella Jared Loughner Pleads Guilty, Won'... and thinks it’s Fail
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darbanella 9 months agoMassive fail. He gets to keep breathing and we get to pay for his “housing” and three squares a day for the remainder of his days…. I call b.s.
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- shanil thinks Jared Loughner Pleads Guilty, Won'... is Ew
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oOo 9 months agoIf you’re so fucking crazy that going on a killing rampage makes sense, you can’t be here anymore. Drug him for the rest of his life just so he can be competent enough to sit in a jail cell for the rest of his life to pay for a crime he was supposedly too crazy to understand at the time he did it? What a lost cause. They should put him to death and be done with it. If this movie theater massacre guy gets out of it too, it’s just a ludicrous joke. They are nothing but a burden and can’t ever live amongst us because of the whole murdering-everybody risk. There’s no point in them being alive and they deserve death for their crimes. Kill them.
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- liam thinks Jared Loughner Pleads Guilty, Won'... is Win
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Aaron C. 9 months agoJust kill him. I don’t agree with the “it’s worse punishment for him to rot in prison the rest of his life”, it’s also expensive and takes up room. The guy is a defective human. If he was an animal he would be put down without a second thought. There’s already way too many people on this planet taking up too much space, and prisons are already too full as it is in this country. He plead guilty of murder. He is guilty. Kill him. Seriously.
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- calli441 thinks Jared Loughner Pleads Guilty, Won'... is OMG
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