Colorado movie gunman sentenced to 12 lifetimes and 3,318 years

Rueters ^ | Keith Coffman

[BenLurkin]

"It is the court's intention that the defendant never set foot in free society again ... If there was ever a case that warranted the maximum sentences, this is the case," Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour said.

"The defendant does not deserve any sympathy."

Survivors and relatives of those killed clapped and cheered as Samour then ordered deputies to remove Holmes from his courtroom, and the gunman was led away in shackles.

The 27-year-old was found guilty last month of murdering 12 people and wounding 70 after donning a helmet, gas mask and body armor, then opening fire with a semiautomatic rifle, shotgun and pistol.

The jury did not reach a unanimous decision on whether Holmes should be executed. That meant the former neuroscience graduate student, who had pleaded insanity, got a dozen automatic life sentences with no parole for his attack on the packed screening at the Century 16 multiplex in the Denver suburb of Aurora.

[AppyPappy]

He can probably be released for medical hardship.

[SkyDancer]

I think it’s meant that he’d never ever be considered for parole. I hope he’s buried in SuperMax out in the Colorado desert and never socializes with anyone again. But then, some liberal governor sometime in the future would commute his sentence to life with parole.

[Alberta's Child]

Oh, I see. So that means he MIGHT have been eligible for parole if he had only been sentenced to 9 lifetimes and 1,768 years?

[subterfuge]

Uh...no, if there was ever a case where the defendent deserved DEATH, this is it!

[subterfuge]

But the article says friends and family happy with the sentence.?

[SkyDancer]

Something like that. Well if he took some work studies programs he might get out in, oh say, 5 lifetimes and 750 years?

[Paleo Pete]

I want 15 seconds with him in a room with no cameras. Or weapons.