Holmes Death Penalty Decision: “Justice Is Death” Says Prosecutors
James E. Holmes deserves to die for killing 12 people in a storm of bullets inside a packed Aurora Colorado movie theater one night last July, prosecutors said in a hearing here on Monday. “For James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” the Arapahoe County district attorney, George Brauchler, said in court.
As Holmes walked in he glanced into crowd and seemed to catch the eye of his father, who was seated in the courtroom. As the announcement was announced, Holmes’ father put his arm around his wife.
In deciding to pursue the death penalty against Mr. Holmes, prosecutors rejected a plea offer floated last week by Mr. Holmes’s lawyers, in which he would have pleaded guilty to the shooting in exchange for life in prison with no chance of parole.
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