Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 18, 2025 / 06:00 am

Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced he is seeking the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with murdering Christian conservative activist Charlie Kirk .

“I am filing a notice of intent to seek the death penalty,” Gray said in a Sept. 16 news conference . “I do not take this decision lightly, and it is a decision I have made independently as county attorney based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime.”

Robinson is charged with seven crimes , the most serious of which is aggravated murder . Utah’s criminal code has two forms of intentional homicide: “murder” and the more serious “aggravated murder.”

The maximum sentence for murder is life in prison, but an aggravated murder

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