Bryan Kohberger's decision to accept plea deal came after efforts to strike death penalty failed
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students, listens during a hearing to overturn his grand jury indictment on Oct. 26, 2023, at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho. Kai Eiselein Pool
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger 's attorneys had done what they could to spare his life.
They tried to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students on an array of grounds — that it would violate standards of decency or flout international law, that prosecutors had failed to provide evidence properly, that their client's autism diagnosis reduced any possible culpability.
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