MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – In announcing their intent this week to seek the death penalty against two men accused in a mass shooting at a home barbershop, prosecutors alleged that the defendants caused a great risk of death to many people.
That is one of 14 possible aggravating factors that prosecutors must prove in seeking the death penalty. But that, alone, would not even have allowed prosecutors to file capital murder charges in the first place.
“Absent any other circumstances that would otherwise make it capital, we would not be able to seek capital murder if it’s one homicide where a great number of people are put at risk,” Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood told FOX10 News…