Colorado Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty in Movie Massacre
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James Holmes, accused of opening fire in a Colorado movie theater in July and killing 12 people, should face the death penalty, according to a prosecutor who said the law requires him to be “minister of justice.”
Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler informed Judge William Sylvester of the decision at a two-minute hearing yesterday in state court in Centennial, in suburban Denver. He told the judge that members of his office talked to more than 800 victims and family members in the case and that he personally spoke with 60 victims.