Assuming he wasn't killed in prison, he would inevitably be executed. I don't know what the appeals process was like in Texas in 1963, but he would be worked through the system as fast as possible. The public would demand nothing less.
Oswald might not have been executed since the death penalty was briefly abolished in the US in the 70s.
But that was 1963. His trial would be sometime in '64; I can't see him getting off in any way, there would be no O. J. moment here. Plus, he killed Officer Tippett, and they fry cop killers in the south even today, never mind that he had killed the POTUS, so he has to go. The death penalty was declared to be cruel and unusual punishment by the Supreme Court in 1972, and reinstated in 1976, but Oswald would be long gone by this time.
Yes, but killing POUTS in 1963 was not a Federal crime
I agree. He probably would have been executed, or, maybe Jack Ruby goes to prison for some other reason, gets put in the jail where Oswald is staying, and shanks him in prison.
simply put, whoever is in charge of it, whether it is the state district attorney or the attorney general or the governor of texas or whoever would have made certain that oswald was alone his entire time in prison because of the very risk of this, there is no way that any law enforcement agency will accept not having this man live through the trial, for the very same reason that timothy mcveigh wore a bullet proof vest when entering and exiting the courthouse, and why the nazi's at nuremburg were put on 24 hour suicide watch.Listen, that man would be killed in prison within 30 seconds. Also, if he managed by some miracle to live, he would be exucuted within a week. Max.
I think we can all agree that if he was not killed that the world would find out that he was under CIA orders to kill the president.