Gabrielle Giffords To Attend Gunman Sentencing

Former US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will join other victims of an Arizona mass shooting to see gunman Jared Loughner sentenced.

The 24-year-old is facing life in prison after pleading guilty three months ago to 19 federal charges, including murder and attempted assassination.

The plea deal means he will avoid the death penalty.

The sentencing hearing will be the first time victims will confront Loughner in court about the January 2011 massacre at a Ms Giffords' political event outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona.

Gabrielle Giffords' husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, is expected to address the court on her behalf, before US District Judge Larry Burns sentences Loughner.

Jared Loughner pictured in high school

Ms Giffords has made a remarkable recovery from the traumatic head injuries she suffered, but has since retired from her political post.

Under the terms of his plea agreement, Loughner will most likely see out his life in a prison psychiatric unit, with no possibility of parole.

He was originally judged to be mentally unfit to stand trial and diagnosed as schizophrenic.

But he then underwent months of forced medication and treatment to restore his competency at a federal prison hospital in Missouri.

Psychologists eventually decided he could be tried, just before the plea deal was finalised.

The sentencing will mark the end of the federal case against Loughner, but he could still be tried for murder and other crimes in the Arizona state court.

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