PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's close friend Jack Posobiec called Friday for convicted assassins to face the death penalty after spending five days in a Utah courtroom watching prosecutors present what he described as "an avalanche of evidence" against the man accused of murdering the Turning Point USA founder last year."I think the death penalty should be sought for any assassin," Posobiec, a senior editor at Human Events and former Navy intelligence officer, told reporters outside the Fourth District Courthouse in Provo, Utah, Friday."I think assassins are a cancer on society itself."Such a change would require lawmakers to expand the aggravating factors that make murder cases eligible for the death penalty.
Under current laws in the federal system and the 27 states that have capital punishment, assassination cases aren't automatically death penalty eligible.WHY POLITICAL ASSASSINATION CASES AREN'T AUTOMATICALLY DEATH PENALTY ELIGIBLEA split image showing Luigi Mangione, left, Jack Posobiec, center, and Tyler Robinson, right.Posobiec, a friend of Charlie Kirk, is calling for the death penalty for convicted assassins.
Mangione and Robinson are both accused in high-profile, politically motivated assassinations.Neither has gone to trial yet.
(Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images, Tessa Hoyos/Fox News Digital, Rick Egan-Pool/Getty Images)"Specifically political assassinations, but really any assassination — it's an attack on our rights as free people," Posobiec said."It's an attack on our rights under the First Amendment.
It's an attack on our very way of life as Americans and as Americans, you have to provide the utmost penalty for someone who attacks our very bedrock way of life."Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk spoke during his "American Comeback Tour" at Utah Valley University on Sept.10, 2025, in Orem, Utah.
Kirk was fatally shot while appearing at the event.(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)Kirk's murder during an event at Utah Valley Univer...