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This a capital case. prosecutors have not yet said whether they will seek the death penalty. they said that will be determined after a preliminary hearing. everybody is back in court july 29th and at that point, mike, the suspect could enter a plea. back to you. >> mike: claudia cowan, thank you. a lot of folks taking that inner fit -- storming area 51 where conspiracy theorist have little green men on iced and what it appears the u.s. forces taking the threats quite seriously. national security griffin shows us from the pentagon tonight. >> it was a joke but when the air force is taking serio...

The charges filed against a suspect here could warrant a capital case. prosecutors and salt lake city have not decided whether they will seek the death penalty. they say that will happen after a preliminary hearing. everyone is back in court on july 29th and at that point he suspect could enter a plea. >> shepard: thank you. brand-new revelations today about the rich sex offender and accused under aged sex trafficker jeffrey epstein. authorities searched the safe in his home and say they found piles of cash, diamonds, and an expired passport issued with his picture, a fake name, and the addres...

Row. >> we don't use the death penalty today. we are warehousing folks. >> reporter: yet death penalty proponents argue that keeping people on death row through several years of appeals what costs so much. >> in a capital case where there's no doubt who did it, which is most capital cases, you can get it done in six years. >> reporter: by signing an executive order, he will join governors of colorado, pennsylvania, washington, and oregon who also used their power to suspend or delay executions. >> i do not believe those executions made us safer. >> reporter: that's a belief governor newsom als...

Our district attorney. this could be a capital case, we don't know. but this isn't something that will be done anytime soon. certainly the arrest does bring some closure to the family and helps the newman police department and the community in newman. but make no mistake. we will continue this investigation until we have everything presentable so that we can prosecute. obviously, there is a lot of misinformation and other information that is being spread and widely spread on social media. remember, if you don't hear it from us, be cautious about the validity and the valid parts of information ...

Details that he was able to begin showing the fallacies and the falsehoods in his case, and i had never done an appeal of a capital case. it was terrifying. >> narrator: lorenzi knew he faced an uphill battle, so he enlisted the help of veteran appeals attorney clive stafford smith. >> i had worked on another capital case where i had needed a favor and tom lorenzi had very kindly helped me out. so when tom got roped into smitty's case, he called me back and i sort of owed him a favor. >> narrator: clive was concerned to learn that hard-line judge frank shea, notorious for fast tracking trials,...