Nick Reiner won't face death penalty for parents' death

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on Sep 15, 2026

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Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in the murder trial of Nick Reiner.

The 33-year-old son of Emmy Award winning performer Nick Reiner and his photographer wife, Michele Singer Reiner, is charged with fatally stabbing the show business royals in the couple’s Los Angeles home on Dec. 14. He pleaded not guilty and has a pretrial hearing Tuesday in California.

He will not face the prospect of execution, the Los Angeles County District Attorney tells the Daily News.

A press release is expected to be released following Tuesday’s hearing.

That decision is reportedly based largely on the victims’ opposition to capital punishment, according to TMZ.

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman reportedly ruled out executing Reiner “for several reasons” including that one. The impact the situation is having on the victims’ surviving children Jake and Romy Reiner, is also a consideration.

“Nobody really understands what it’s like to go through something like that until you’re living it,” Jake told ABC News in an interview last month.

Even if the death penalty were pursued, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2019 order to halt executions in California could complicate the state’s ability to implement such punishment.

The District Attorney’s office hasn’t responded to a request for comment.

Rob and Michele were mourned by their entertainment industry peers Monday night at the 78th Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

“We all miss Rob and Michele,” an emotional Jamie Lee Curtis said at the end of the show’s in memoriam tribute.

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