Texas Walmart massacre suspect pleads guilty to US hate crimes -media

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44% : In 2020, his lawyers argued that Crusius, then 21, had been diagnosed with severe, lifelong neurological and mental disabilities and should not face execution if convicted.(Reporting by Brad Brooks in Lubbock, Texas;
42% : Proceedings were delayed while prosecutors decided whether to pursue the death penalty.
41% :Patrick Crusius changed his plea to guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
41% : A Texas judge last year put off a state trial in the case, saying that determining how to proceed would be affected by the decision from federal prosecutors on whether they would seek capital punishment.
40% : He faces the death penalty on state charges.

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