Kohberger Declines to Speak, Will Die in Prison

After the families of his victims gave their impact statements, Bryan Kohberger replied, "I respectfully decline" when given the opportunity to speak. Judge Steven Hippler then sentenced him to four consecutive life sentences without parole, as well as 10 years for burglary, but not before calling him a "coward" who "slithered through the sliding glass door at 1122 King Road" and "now stands unmasked." More:

• "We are now certain who committed these unspeakable acts of evil, but what we don't know, and what we may never know, is why," he said, per ABC News.
• And while there is a desire to know his motive, "by continuing to focus on why, we continue to give Mr. Kohberger relevance," and the "spotlight, attention, and power he appears to crave."
• Hippler added that "even if I could force him to speak, which legally I cannot, how could anyone ever be assured that what he speaks is the truth?"
• "In my view, the time has now come to end for Mr. Kohberger's 15 minutes of fame," Hippler said, per NBC News. "It's time that he be consigned to the ignominy and isolation of perpetual incarceration."
• CNN expects he will be incarcerated in Idaho's sole maximum-security prison, the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, which since 1989 has held the state's "most disruptive male residents."