Charlie Kirk's close friend calls for death penalty for convicted assassins

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. The senior editor at Human Events told reporters outside the Provo courthouse Friday that there was an "avalanche" of evidence in the Charlie Kirk assassination case. 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 eligibl