The accused Santa Fe shooter will never get the death penalty. Here's why.

[TexasTowelie]

The high school junior accused of gunning down 10 students and teachers at a Santa Fe school is facing a capital murder charge - but he’ll never face the death penalty, even in Texas.

Some day, he’ll even be eligible for parole.

Though Dimitrios Pagourtzis was charged as an adult and jailed without bond, even if he’s found guilty he can’t be sentenced to death because of a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. And in the Lone Star State, he can’t be sentenced to life without parole as the result of a 2013 law that banned the practice for minors.

“In Texas, after the Supreme Court’s decision, they passed a law that basically says that it’s a life sentence if you’re under 18 at the time of the crime,” said attorney Amanda Marzullo, executive director of Texas Defender Services. “The Court has said that it is cruel and unusual to execute an individual who is under 18 at the time of the offense.”

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-Santa-Fe-shooter-will-never-get-the-death-12927133.php

[WhiteTara]

1. Well, now he gets a lifetime to think about

what he did.

[Downtown Hound]

2. I'm fine with him getting life

He may be full of bravado and smug satisfaction now, but after 30-50 years of same old, same old, he's probably going to wish they had executed him. One day he'll grow older, and he'll realize that his life passed him by and that he has nothing to show for his time on Earth except a trail of waste, loss, suffering, and misery.

That's a much greater punishment than just killing him now.