No Death Penalty for Illegal Alien Charged With Murder of U.S. Man Grant Ronnebeck, Arizona Court Rules

No Death Penalty for Illegal Alien Charged With Murder of U.S. Man Grant Ronnebeck, Arizona Court Rules
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A court in Arizona has rejected an appeal to have the death penalty served for a Mexican illegal alien charged with the murder of young store clerk, Grant Ronnebeck.

In July, a judge ruled that illegal alien Apolinar Altamirano, 34, was not eligible for the death penalty due to being intellectually disabled. Judge Michael Kemp said that Altamirano had a fifth-grade education and could not get special education owing to his circumstances growing up in Mexico at the time.