By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters Almost six years after a racist mass shooting at a Walmart terrorized El Paso, the judicial process has yielded decisions that will have the gunman serving multiple life sentences. The sentences were the result of guilty pleas in federal and state court, meaning a jury of El Pasoans was never presented with evidence to assess what happened on Aug. 3, 2019.

That also means that El Paso and the world have only a partial understanding of the deadliest attack targeting Hispanics in modern U.S. history. District Attorney James Montoya had a news conference March 25 to explain his decision not to seek the death penalty in the state case, which cleared the way for the gunman’s guilty plea. Montoya acknowledged that a trial would have played a key role in giving o

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