Texas Walmart Massacre Suspect Pleads Guilty To U.S. Hate Crimes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : 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.
42% : Proceedings were delayed while prosecutors decided whether to pursue the death penalty.
41% : Patrick Crusius, 24, changed his plea to guilty during a hearing in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.
41% : He still faces the death penalty on state charges in a pending trial.
38% : A Texas judge last year put off the state trial, saying that determining how to proceed would be affected by the decision from federal prosecutors on whether they would seek capital punishment.

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