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Public Defender: Illegal Alien Charged with Murdering Four Americans Unfit for Death Penalty Due to Low IQ

An illegal alien accused of murdering four Americans over the course of a week in Nevada is set to claim that he is “intellectually disabled” in order to avoid the death penalty.

Wilbur Ernesto Martinez-Guzman, a 20-year-old illegal alien from El Salvador, was charged with murdering 56-year-old Connie Koontz, 74-year-old Sophia Renken, 81-year-old Gerald David, and his 80-year-old wife, Sharon David, between January 10 and 15 after prosecutors said he was looking to steal money from his victims to buy more meth. The state of Nevada is seeking the death penalty.

To avoid the death penalty, though, Martinez-Guzman will seek to the deemed “intellectually disabled” which would make him ineligible for the death penalty, the Associated Press reports:

[Public defenders] say information gathered so far shows [Martinez-Guzman’s] IQ is much lower than originally believed and that he may have been exposed to pesticides and fertilizers while working in farm fields in his native country. [Emphasis added]

“Based on the investigation to date, there is a good faith basis to believe that Mr. Guzman is ineligible for the death penalty because he may be intellectually disabled. There could be no greater insult to public justice that to execute someone that as a matter of law is ineligible for capital punishment,” Washoe County Public Defender John Arrascada wrote in the Oct. 4 motion. [Emphasis added]

So far, prosecutors have said there is not enough evidence to rule out the death penalty for Martinez-Guzman. The illegal alien’s attorneys are looking to have the trial moved to February 2021 despite the current trial date of April 2020.

Illegal aliens charged with murder have routinely been using the “intellectually disabled” defense to avoid being put to death. In the case of illegal alien gang member Apolinar Altamirano, who allegedly murdered 21-year-old Grant Ronnebeck in January 2015, was able to be deemed “intellectually disabled” in order to avoid the death penalty.

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4 Comments

  1. Jack Jack October 21, 2019

    What’s the I.Q. of an Aligator or a Rattlesnake? They kill them if they take a life, don’t they?

  2. Methos Methos October 21, 2019

    BS! If you are capable to do a crime like that, you are capable of sitting in the electric chair!.. This nonsense about low IQ being an excuse to go easy on him is stupid! He had enough IQ to understand what he did was wrong. That’s enough!

    • Mike Bollinger Mike Bollinger October 21, 2019

      Who cares if the people are idiots when killing another? This isn’t a toddler who accidentally shoots someone. This is a grown man who killed. IF you don’t have the brains to know what you did was right or wrong, you MUST face the ultimate penalty. I’ll bet he understands that much
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      • JW Salthouse JW Salthouse October 22, 2019

        what is the IQ of a dog? They are euthanized if they kill people. Why should this scumbag deserve any better treatment?

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