Judge Sentence Article Summary

Using Mental Illness as an Excuse for Committing a Crime 1 The newspaper article I will be discussing is titled: Judge Sentence Colorado theater shooter to life in prison plus 3,318 years by Associated Press. James Holmes unleashed a murderous attack on a Colorado Theater was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 3,318 years. This is the maximum that is allowed by the law. Survivors, relatives and jurors were happy to see the gunman brought to justice after waiting three long years. Judge Carlos A. Samour ordered James Holmes, twenty eight years of age, to serve twelve consecutive life sentences, one for each of the people who was killed in the 2012 attack. Samour then added 3,312 years for seventy convictions of attempted murder and six years for an explosive charge. The judge felt that the defendant deserved no sympathy and that’s why he gave him the maximum sentence under the law. James Holmes was an angry quitter who gave up on

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