A Fulton County judge is allowing prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the man accused of committing the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings.
Attorneys for Robert Aaron Long argued last year that he should not be put to death because he was a young adult whose brain had not fully developed at the time of the alleged crimes.
They also claimed that Georgia’s process for the death penalty was unconstitutional.
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