But I'm guessing that the "authorities" do not want to make and example of him...but rather want to keep him around as a prop and tool for furthering their own agenda.
Didn’t he convert to Islam, maybe he’ll convert a bunch of prisoners who will get out to do terrorism.
Like shoe bomber Richard Reid, a prison convert.
Cannabe much of a moslem then if he dinna wanna be a martyr.
Ever notice how murderous wackos like this don’t mind killing other people, they just don’t want to be killed themselves.
If he is sane enough to figure that out then he is sane enough to be tried, convicted and executed.
Here is a counter-offer:
Holmes,
1. You plead guilty and
2. You waive your right to appeal your sentence and
3. You allow the family members of those people whom you murdered to decide between life in prison with no possibility of parole or death.
You have twenty-four hours to decide.
The District Attorney
In this case, I suspect the death penalty would be incorrect, but for an odd reason.
Before the trial even began, when asked by the judge if the defense intended to enter a plea of insanity, they admitted the need to plow through a mountain of evidence and psychiatric examinations to find out if he was and is insane, or at least insane enough to matter.
And the judge agreed with them.
So the defense instead presented an argument for “diminished capacity”, which basically says that they think there are mental issues involved, at least enough to figure into the hearing, but TBD if he is insane or not.
And the judge agreed with that as well.
But this makes a death sentence very problematic. The appeals courts would have a hard time swallowing that. However if found guilty and given a life sentence, the door is open for a post sentencing competency hearing to determine if he is so very insane that he needs to spend the rest of his life in a high security mental ward (i.e. sedated for 23 hours every day.)
Truthfully, I suspect that if you were to crack open his skull, you would find a lot of angry spiders in there.
I’m okay with this. It prevents a lengthy, costly and painful trial plus all the appeals that would come from a death penalty case, plus with Colorado turning more liberal, who knows if somebody like Loopylooper would ever allow the switch to be pulled anyway.
This is what plea bargains are intended to do.
NO SALE
Holmes: one of the new martyrs of the political/regulator class for gun control.