Prosecution Pushes Death Penalty For Colorado Theater Shooting Suspect

[Purveyor]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Prosecutors said Monday they will seek the death penalty for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes despite his offer last week to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding a death sentence.

"It is my determination and my intention that in this case for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death," Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said.

The decision comes less than a week after defense attorneys filed documents saying Holmes had offered to plead guilty and spend the rest of his life behind bars in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.

Prosecutors took the defense to task for publicly offering it, saying they hadn't been given enough information to even consider such a deal.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/01/justice/colorado-theater-shooting-prosecution/

[Botany]

1. Putting a mentally ill man to death will not bring anybody back to life.

The man is obviously mentally ill (schizophrenia my guess) just put him in a
very secure institution for the rest of his life and be done with him. Save all
the $ for a trial and the costs of the D.P. along with putting the victims through
endless appeals and missed execution dates.

[leftyohiolib]

3. do you know anyone who really think that the dead will reincorporate after the sentence is carried

out? death sentence was never about bringing back the dead

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Yep, it is about vengeance...

and it is wrong.

[leftyohiolib]

5. in your opinion

[frylock]

6. but not in the opinion of NK, Iraq, Saudi Arabia..

and several other wonderful democracies we share the use of capital punishment with.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. my opinion is shared...

by the majority of civilized countries in the world.

[leftyohiolib]

10. it's still an opinion

[Botany]

12. It costs too much, takes way to long, and it many cases the person does not get high ...

... quality legal counsel but in some cases as long as it is on the books I think
it should be used ..... this is not one of them. Lock him up and be done w/him.

[struggle4progress]

19. +

[Bully Taw]

2. I am not...

an advocate of the death penalty, but i will admit that this case does make me question my reasoning.

[RobinA]

11. Interesting

I am not a proponent of the death penalty and I can hardly think of a case LESS likely to make me reconsider. Let's kill the mentally ill guy? I don't think so.

[Bully Taw]

13. For those of us that knew

some of the victims, empathy for the murderer is just a bit harder to come by.

[2ndAmForComputers]

15. Yes you are. Who do you think you're fooling?

[libodem]

8. He is clearly mentally ill

But not stupid. I wish the the court understood the difference.

You can be brilliant and know the difference between right and wrong, yet be unable to resist the pull of a delusional thought disorder.

People like Andera Yeates, the Texas mom who drowned her babies is another case. If they could help it, they wouldn't do it. I don't think they can stop themselves. They require intervention prior to going off the deep end.

[TygrBright]

9. That'll teach him not to kill people. Bet he'll never do it again.

And it'll teach everyone ELSE not to kill people, too.

Because nothing teaches people not to kill people as effectively as killing people.

It's worked! Just look at history! Every time a state has decided that the most appropriate way to ensure that people don't kill people is to kill the people who kill people, people have stopped killing people!

Or at least killed them a lot less.

Really. Just look at the numbers! Number of people per million killed in places that kill people who kill people, versus number of people per million killed in places that lock up people who kill people. See?

What?

oh....

Well, never mind then.

Just, whatever you do, NEVER say it has anything to do with how easily people who want to kill people can get access to the tools that make it easiest to kill people.

Never say that, okay?

And we'll just shut the fuck up about killing people who kill people to demonstrate how wrong it is to kill people.

ironically,
Bright

[freshwest]

14. Wondering if the prosecutor's office is an elected one. If so, this may not be an objective decision

Just sayin'

[Odin2005]

16. Two wrongs do not make a right.

[2ndAmForComputers]

17. Well, gee, thank GAWD we have a death penalty, unlike those awful, awful European countries.

How can they live with those crime and murder rates, much higher than the US? All because of those criminal-coddling sushulists!

[MrSlayer]

18. Rope is cheap.

This is one of those "no doubt about it" cases that meet my strict criteria for capital punishment. Open and shut. He's absolutely guilty so have the trial and hang him the next day. There's no reason why capital cases need to drag on for decades and cost ridiculous amounts of money.