The U.S. Department of Justice announced this Friday that it will seek the death penalty for the pro-Palestinian terrorist who shot and killed a young Jewish couple in Washington DC last year.
In May, Elías Rodríguez, a 30-year-old resident of Chicago, was arrested after shooting two members of the Israeli Embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in DC while shouting "Free Palestine." The victims were identified as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram, aged 30 and 26, respectively.
For this abhorrent act, Trump’s U.S. Attorney in the nation’s capital, Jeanine Pirro, reported that a grand jury had indicted and charged Rodriguez with up to nine crimes. Two of these charges are classified as hate crimes and carry a death penalty sentence.
The murder shocked the U.S. capital.
The government officially announced it will seek the death penalty
On Friday, nearly a year after the murders occurred, Pirro officially announced that her office will seek the death penalty against Elías Rodríguez. "Let me be clear: anyone who commits acts of political violence in the nation’s capital will face the full weight of the law,” stated the Trump official.
Documents indicate that Rodríguez premeditatedly attacked the young couple because of their actual national origin, resulting in both of their deaths. He did so using, carrying, and firing a firearm, which constitutes an aggravating factor under DC law and leads to a separate charge.
"Charges 6 and 7, first-degree murder while armed. The defendant, Rodríguez, with deliberate and premeditated malice, killed Yaron and Sarah by shooting each of them with a firearm, thereby causing the injuries for which they died,” the court documents state.
