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Parents of Colorado theater gunman plead for son’s life to be spared
Rueters ^ | Fri Dec 19, 2014 5:20pm EST | Keith Coffman

Posted on 12/19/2014 2:34:58 PM PST by BenLurkin

Defense lawyers have conceded that Holmes was the lone gunman but say he was in the throes of a psychotic episode, a claim his parents repeated in their statement.

“He is a human being gripped by a severe mental illness,” they said of their son, adding that before the mass shooting, “he never harmed anyone and ... had no criminal history.”

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: colorado; crime; holmes
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To: MasterGunner01

What you said!!!

He showed no mercy to those he gunned down, so no mercy should be shown to him!


41 posted on 12/19/2014 5:53:38 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: Persevero

“I don’t think parents are necessarily failures if their kids go nuts.”

I agree. Mental illness is real and the Devil is real and these two forces combined can wreak havoc.

Holmes should be executed, but I don’t fault his parents for trying to save his life. I also am impressed by their sincerity and believe that they are truly anguished by the suffering their son has caused. Their lives must be living hells.


42 posted on 12/19/2014 7:01:23 PM PST by utahagen
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To: BenLurkin

I think a bullet between the ears would cure him.


43 posted on 12/19/2014 7:25:39 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ( Better a conservative teabagger than a liberal teabagee)
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To: BenLurkin
Just for the sake of argument he cuts a deal for life without parole. Those type of deals have a nasty way of being overturned by Liberal Judges which after the criminals lawyer has judge shopped it enough tosses the conviction or reduces it to time served.

About 9 years ago a kid shot a high school principal & the two assistant principal, in cold blood. One assistant principal died the other two men injured. He was allowed to plea for a long sentence. Original sentence was 45 years with no parole hearing for 25 years. This was done to avoid being tried as adult on Murder One. Lo and behold about 7 years later his new lawyer takes it to a judge well known for overturning cases and a Get Out Of Jail with time served ruling was handed down. Campbell County High School Shooting Not even ten years behind bars had past and there was no question as too guilt. Cases like these and judges are the reason such plea bargains should never be allowed to start with. Lawyers often do it in the hopes of finding a sympathetic judge later on.

44 posted on 12/19/2014 9:05:36 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: BenLurkin

like nearly ALL crazed shooters this dirt bag was being treated by a gub mint shink and was on psychotropic drugs.
Was the seed planted each time?
Do You trust obammy’s federal anything?


45 posted on 12/20/2014 3:20:48 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: WildHighlander57

No. If a verdict of insanity is rendered, he would be incarcerated in a facility for the criminally insane.


46 posted on 12/20/2014 5:21:05 PM PST by colorado tanker
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