On Thursday night, Gov. Spencer Cox said Utah officials had been “working with our attorneys getting everything that we need … so that we can pursue the death penalty” for Charlie Kirk’s killer.

“That will happen here in the state of Utah,” Cox told reporters.

But Friday morning, with suspect Tyler Robinson now in custody, Utah Attorney General Derek Brown said it’s not yet clear whether prosecutors will pursue the death penalty against him.

“I can say that it’s obviously part of Utah law,” Brown said in an interview. “It is an option here, but it’s not something that I can talk about in terms of whether that will play a role in this case.”

Whether the death penalty is pursued against any defendant, he added, “has a lot to do with the discretion of the prosecutor,” as well as the speci

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