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Colorado cinema killer avoids death penalty

A gunman who killed 12 people in a cinema during a midnight screening of a Batman film in Colorado 3...
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8:44 AM - 8 Aug 2015



Colorado cinema killer avoids...

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Colorado cinema killer avoids death penalty

TodayFM
TodayFM

8:44 AM - 8 Aug 2015



A gunman who killed 12 people in a cinema during a midnight screening of a Batman film in Colorado 3 years ago has been spared the death penalty.

James Holmes will spend the rest of his life in prison after jurors failed to agree if he should be sentenced to death.

He was convicted last month of multiple counts of murder and attempted murder over the shootings.

Defence attorney Tamara Brady had argued for a prison term because of his mental state:

  Reporter Jonathan Samuels describes Holmes's reaction in court:



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