Charlie Kirk's close friend calls for death penalty for convicted assassins

PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's adjacent person Jack Posobiec called Friday for convicted assassins to look the decease punishment aft spending 5 days successful a Utah courtroom watching prosecutors contiguous what helium described arsenic "an avalanche of evidence" against the antheral accused of murdering the Turning Point USA laminitis past year.

"I deliberation the decease punishment should beryllium sought for immoderate assassin," Posobiec, a elder exertion astatine Human Events and erstwhile Navy quality officer, told reporters extracurricular the Fourth District Courthouse successful Provo, Utah, Friday. "I deliberation assassins are a crab connected nine itself."

Such a alteration would necessitate lawmakers to grow the aggravating factors that marque execution cases eligible for the decease penalty. Under existent laws successful the national strategy and the 27 states that person superior punishment, assassination cases aren't automatically decease punishment eligible.

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A divided representation showing Luigi Mangione, left, Jack Posobiec, center, and Tyler Robinson, right. Posobiec, a person of Charlie Kirk, is calling for the decease punishment for convicted assassins. Mangione and Robinson are some accused successful high-profile, politically motivated assassinations. Neither has gone to proceedings yet. (Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images, Tessa Hoyos/Fox News Digital, Rick Egan-Pool/Getty Images)

"Specifically governmental assassinations, but truly immoderate assassination — it's an onslaught connected our rights arsenic escaped people," Posobiec said. "It's an onslaught connected our rights nether the First Amendment. It's an onslaught connected our precise mode of beingness arsenic Americans and arsenic Americans, you person to supply the utmost punishment for idiosyncratic who attacks our precise bedrock mode of life."

Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk spoke during his "American Comeback Tour" astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025, successful Orem, Utah. Kirk was fatally changeable portion appearing astatine the event. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Kirk's execution during an lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem connected Sept. 10, 2025, is 1 of 2 large assassination cases making their mode done tribunal astatine present. Months earlier Kirk's death, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down from down extracurricular a New York City edifice hours earlier helium was expected to be a concern league with Wall Street investors.

The fishy successful that case, Luigi Mangione, would nary longer look the imaginable decease punishment if convicted aft his lawyers successfully outmaneuvered national prosecutors, who could not usage the alleged assassination itself arsenic an aggravating origin nether existent law.

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He is accused of penning anti-insurance manufacture messages connected casings recovered from the transgression scene. Robinson is accused of pursuing suit — engraving cartridges with memes and Antifa-inspired phrases.

Mangione has pleaded not blameworthy to each charges successful New York, wherever determination is nary decease penalty, and astatine the national level.

This 2017 record photograph of Brian Thompson was released via Businesswire erstwhile helium was named Chief Executive Officer of UnitedHealthcare Unit successful 2017. (Businesswire)

Robinson has not yet entered a plea and isn't expected to bash truthful until astatine slightest September, erstwhile Judge Tony Graf Jr. rules connected whether there's capable grounds to nonstop the lawsuit to trial.

Posobiec, who attended each 5 days of the hearing, agreed with prosecutors who said they had "overwhelming" and "devastating" grounds against the defendant.

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"This isn't conscionable a papers that says Tyler Robinson did it," helium told reporters.

Prosecutors showed a video interrogation with Robinson's erstwhile person and roommate, Lance Twiggs, who alleged the fishy made aggregate confessions.

A video interrogation with Lance Twiggs, Tyler Robinson's roommate and reported romanticist partner, is shown during a preliminary proceeding for Tyler Robinson, who is accused successful the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, astatine the Fourth District Courthouse successful Provo, Utah, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Spenser Heaps, Pool) ( )

They heard grounds astir DNA accordant with Robinson's being recovered connected items astatine the transgression scene, including the suspected execution limb and the ammo inside, which were recovered successful the woods adjacent field — much than 250 miles from his location successful confederate Utah.

Toolmark grounds allegedly linked an engraved cartridge casing recovered successful Robinson's flat to the aforesaid Dremel instrumentality investigators asseverate was utilized to engrave cartridges and a spent casing recovered astatine the transgression scene.

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Investigators testified that a fishy and conveyance connected field surveillance video were Robinson and his Dodge Challenger. The video allegedly showed Robinson pursuing the aforesaid way doubly — successful antithetic outfits. During the 2nd visit, the fishy is shown walking with a distinctive, limp-like gait, arsenic helium is alleged to beryllium walking with a firearm concealed down his sound leg.

A grey Dodge Challenger parked successful the driveway of Tyler Robinson's household location successful Washington, Utah, Friday, September 12, 2025. Robinson reportedly drove a grey Dodge Challenger to UVU connected the time helium is allegedy to person assassinated Charlie Kirk. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

He allegedly made interaction with Turning Point USA members earlier the shooting and with a Spanish Fork constabulary serviceman afterward.

And helium allegedly claimed work for the transgression successful substance messages and a handwritten enactment to Twiggs, a speech with his parents and a Discord chat with aggregate people.

Posobiec contrasted the grounds presented against Robinson implicit the people of a week to the lawsuit against Bryan Kohberger, wherever prosecutors had small much than a interaction DNA illustration connected a Ka-Bar weapon sheath the quadruple murderer dropped astatine the transgression scene, on with immoderate circumstantial telephone information and the statement of a fishy vehicle.

Left: Bryan Kohberger, 30, appears for his sentencing proceeding aft helium was convicted successful the 2022 stabbing deaths of 4 Idaho assemblage students, astatine the Ada County Courthouse, successful Boise, Idaho, U.S., July 23, 2025. Right: Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk, appears during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court connected December 11, 2025 successful Provo, Utah. Prosecutors person charged Tyler Robinson with aggravated execution and program to question the decease penalty. (Kyle Green/Pool via REUTERS, Rick Egan-Pool/Getty Images)

But Kohberger pleaded blameworthy to debar the decease penalty, Posobiec noted.

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"You comparison that minimal magnitude of grounds to this avalanche — and determination has been an avalanche of evidence," helium said.

Robinson is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Sept. 1 for oral arguments connected whether his lawsuit should beryllium bound implicit — oregon sent to trial.