Liberal DA prevented Laken's killer from being executed
Lefty Georgia DA in Laken Riley case faces outrage after killer migrant avoids death penalty
The progressive Georgia district attorney who was prosecuting nursing student Laken Riley’s illegal immigrant killer refused to seek the death penalty even after removing herself from the case - drawing outrage when the defendant was sentenced to life without parole.
Athens-Clarke District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez, who appointed a special prosecutor to take over the prosecution of Jose Ibarra at the end of February amid criticism over her own prosecutorial record, laid out her soft-on-crime reforms when she assumed office in January 2021.
Gonzalez said her office would “no longer seek the death penalty” and when considering charging defendants, she would “take into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants,” according to a copy of the district attorney’s policies shared by Georgia state Rep. Houston Gaines (R-Barrow).
At least this monster will spend the rest of his life behind bars...providing some future liberal DA or judge doesn't let him off.
This is why judicial and prosecutor discretion need to be removed from the law as well as having penalties built in for abusing one's power and trying to get around these requirements.