Prosecutors present death penalty case against Kirk's alleged killer at Utah hearing

In a Utah courtroom this week, a five-day preliminary hearing begins for Tyler Robinson, 23, charged with the aggravated murder of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder shot before thousands at Utah Valley University last September. The proceeding asks not yet whether Robinson is guilty, but whether the weight of evidence — DNA, video, and his own written words — is sufficient to carry the case toward that reckoning. It is a moment where law, grief, politics, and the question of what justice requires of a society all arrive at the same threshold together.