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ReturnOfDevsman posted...

I dunno what they're going to try now, but as I understand it, that's precisely the reason they came up with the terrorism charge. Murders are only punishable by execution in the US if they're federal crimes, which only happens under weird circumstances. One circumstance is if no state can claim jurisdiction (for example, in international waters). Another is if it were terrorism.

I'm not an expert, but from googling it back when the story first dropped, that's more or less how I understood it.

Thats not how it works. New York State cant execute him because they dont have the death penalty. Federal courts can, but thats unrelated to the charges in New York, they just also have to charge which they are doing on the grounds that the crimes involved multiple states. So the state dropping terrorism charges has no direct effect on whether or not the feds can have him executed.