Judge keeps death penalty on the table for Bryan Kohberger regardless of autism diagnosis

Bryan Kohberger, charged with the stabbing deaths of four Idaho college students in 2022, will not be spared from the death penalty regardless of his recent autism diagnosis, a judge ruled.

Judge Steven Hippler ruled that Kohberger is not disqualified from the death penalty since his attorneys did not show that autism spectrum disorder is an intellectual disability, which is the only case in which the death penalty can be barred.