The progressive district attorney who prosecuted the case for the migrant who brutally murdered nursing student Laken Riley said she wouldn’t seek the death penalty because it would cause “collateral consequences to undocumented defendants.”
Jose Ibarra, 26, was convicted Wednesday on all 10 counts for his brutal slaying of the 22-year-old Augusta University student while she was jogging and got life in prison without parole.
Many Republicans were shocked that Ibarra, an undocumented migrant from Venezuela, was not given a death sentence.
Deborah Gonzalez, a liberal prosecutor funded by George Soros, said in February that her office would “no longer seek the death penalty” because life without parole already constitutes “very substantial punishment.”
Gonzalez made several other “soft-on-crime” policy decisions out of a desire to impact “the community’s fundamental faith in the system.”
That included not charging simple marijuana offenses, not using mandatory minimum sentencing and taking “into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants.”