Batman Shooter/AP/ Plead Guilty to Avoid Death Penalty

Doesn't he know Colorado is going to outlaw the death penalty this session?

I say fry his @$$ till he sizzles.

He needs to suffer as long as the friends and family of his victims will suffer. He needs to be locked up with the worst of the worst sex offenders and gang bangers. Death is too quick and painless.

Hopefully the prosecution takes the plea and puts him away. Colorado has paid enough on the case.

FredHayek wrote: Doesn't he know Colorado is going to outlaw the death penalty this session?

Evidently not. The Democrats killed their own bill in committee because Hickenlooper's finger hasn't given him a clear indication of which way the political winds are blowing at the present time. He's already given any potential challenger a huge issue to run against him on in November 2014, no sense in adding insult to injury quite yet I suppose.

I won't have a problem voting him out of office.
I have more than a few reasons to vote him out.

He's going to cost the state a lot no matter what.

Holmes would last a day or two in the general population - so that's really not going to be an option.

Long term imprisonment is going to cost Colorado a lot, since he'll be in a maximum security facility.

He's going to get solitary confinement and clinical treatment.

The meds alone will cost tens of thousands of dollars per year.

Mike Rosen was proposing on KOA today that since it is such an open and shut case for the prosecuters to insist on the death penalty and have the judge limit the appeals like Texas does.

Plea Deal Rejected In Aurora Shooting

James Holmes Trial: Prosecutors Reject Guilty Plea Offer From Aurora Massacre Suspect (VIDEOS/PHOTOS)

DENVER (AP) — Prosecutors in the Colorado theater massacre case have rejected an offer from suspect James Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, saying the proposal can't be considered genuine because the defense has repeatedly refused to give them information needed to evaluate it.

No plea agreement exists, prosecutors said in a scathing court document Thursday, and one "is extremely unlikely based on the present information available to the prosecution."

They also said anyone reading news stories about the offer would inevitably conclude "the defendant knows that he is guilty, the defense attorneys know that he is guilty, and that both of them know that he was not criminally insane."

Neither the defense nor the prosecution immediately returned phone calls Thursday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/2 ... 77121.html

We may yet see the dime dropped on this guy... Unless they do away with the death penalty. I think Hick will veto that...

After reading about the mental damage caused by solitary confinement, the best punishment might be a life term for the shooter. He is a young man and 50 years of that treatment would be tough.