Laken Riley killer Jose Ibarra deserved the death penalty, not mercy from the left
By Post Editorial Board
Published Nov. 21, 2024, 12:07 p.m. ET
Monstrous killer and Tren de Aragua gangbanger Jose Ibarra got sentenced Wednesday to life without parole for his February murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
It should have been death.
But Deborah Gonzalez, the leftist prosecutor initially in charge of the case, refused to seek the death penalty.
That obscenity was part of a policy she implemented in 2021, claiming that “collateral consequences to undocumented defendants” would determine how she charged them.
Collateral consequences to undocumented defendants?
What about the people they rob, rape, and murder?
Ibarra, remember, was an illegal migrant invited here and then welcomed by the Biden administration: After jumping the border in 2022, he got bused on the taxpayers’ dime to New York City, to enjoy more taxpayer-funded food and shelter as he worked illegally in food delivery.
In 2023, he was arrested for child endangerment. The NYPD let him slip so fast that ICE says it had no time to issue a detainer — then the Biden crew paid for him to fly to Atlanta to join some kin.
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