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Life for James Holmes: Swift verdict from Aurora theater shooting jury
FOX31 Denver ^ | August 7, 2015

Posted on 08/07/2015 4:23:38 PM PDT by TomGuy

CENTENNIAL, Colo. -- It took almost three years for the case to reach trial. That trial played out over the course of three months. The jury needed just 6.5 hours to render a verdict. James Holmes has been sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aurora; colorado; holmes; islam; jamesholmes; shootings; theater
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Right on. Let him spend the rest of his life in obscurity and then an eternity in hell ... sounds good to me. ;-)


61 posted on 08/07/2015 5:06:36 PM PDT by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: Steely Tom

Which is how many people?


62 posted on 08/07/2015 5:07:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: ponygirl

If he’s Muslim there’s a possibility he’ll get pardoned by Resident Obama! I bet Obama has that on a back burner.


63 posted on 08/07/2015 5:10:31 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood
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To: Randy Larsen

McVeigh withdrew his appeals. CO people have a leniency for criminals.


64 posted on 08/07/2015 5:12:00 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: WildHighlander57
"So “life in prison without possibility of parole” doesn’t mean what it says??"

There is no sentence, other than an already carried out execution, that cannot be changed by a sufficiently motivated higher authority.

65 posted on 08/07/2015 5:14:00 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: FredZarguna
Which is how many people?

Only takes one to prove my point.

66 posted on 08/07/2015 5:16:49 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Steely Tom
Prison suicide rate is 10.4 to 18 per 100,000 inmates depending on whose estimates you trust and what year you use. Suicide rate in the US population is 12.6 per 100,000. Most of the suicides are not among lifers. That suggests the prisoners kill themselves at almost the ordinary rate, for the usual reasons, and has nothing to do with them serving life.

If you've ever actually talked to corrections people, they'll tell you that the lifers claim that they'd "prefer" the death penalty is typical of the con jobs they're constantly trying to pull.

67 posted on 08/07/2015 5:18:24 PM PDT by FredZarguna ( "I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark Bar didn't COME OUT!!!")
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To: Randy Larsen

McVeigh was sentenced in Federal court for killing Federal officials. He never stood state trial for the 160 counts of murder.


68 posted on 08/07/2015 5:21:29 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FredZarguna

I believe Timothy McVeigh stated he would rather be executed than spend the rest of his life in prison.

He also tried to get his execution televised.


69 posted on 08/07/2015 5:22:34 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: FredZarguna

It’s a matter of opinion, as I said back in post #35 on this thread.


70 posted on 08/07/2015 5:23:16 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Life is cheap, you kill and you get taken care of for life we have to pay for this scumbag when he should get exactly what he dished out. Bring back the colluseum. A fitting end to this miserable life would be a pack of hungry hyenas


71 posted on 08/07/2015 5:23:49 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: DuncanWaring

In practice the death sentence is essentially LWOP.


72 posted on 08/07/2015 5:24:56 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: rikkir
This is an article about the Supermax facility in Florence, CO, where I assume this theatre killer will be spending the rest of his days. Also check out the video at the bottom of the link. If this is truly what this facility is like, most would choose death.
73 posted on 08/07/2015 5:26:56 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: TomGuy

Pathetic, in theory.

This scum is a MASS murderer, not just a guy who killed one in a rage or to rob incidentally.

Mass murderers deserve death.

Pity this is the first mass murderer in ages, besides the Snipers, who survived his crime and leaves fools to decide his dpfate.

I really prefer it when they kill themselves.


74 posted on 08/07/2015 5:29:06 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: beethovenfan

Excellent observation.

And at is why libertarians think “death pen doesn’t work”, because they do not see it applied in a serious manner. 50 years until execution? Totally loses any bite.

In the old days, it was dead serious. No pusssy-footin’.


75 posted on 08/07/2015 5:31:03 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SamAdams76

They have pix of Helen Thomas and Hitlery all over the walls?


76 posted on 08/07/2015 5:32:43 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: TomGuy

How long does the process take for him to actually arrive in the final prison? Days? weeks?


77 posted on 08/07/2015 5:45:34 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: TomGuy

Life, huh?

Way too many dopers in Colorado. A normal state would have given him the death penalty.


78 posted on 08/07/2015 5:46:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: TomGuy

Thank all the A-Hole invaders from California for ruining my beautiful, conservative, freedom loving state. I KNEW those jerks didn’t have the balls to do the right thing.


79 posted on 08/07/2015 5:48:07 PM PDT by McCloud-Strife ( USA 1776-2008)
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To: lee martell

Yep. it seems theater shootings are becoming the norm. And this light sentence is not going to help deter others from acting out in the same way.


80 posted on 08/07/2015 5:49:21 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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