CindyL I don't know where you are getting your statistics from but from my quick Google search crime in Australia is at an all time low! Also yes gun crimes do happen in other countries but my point is why not make it a lot more difficult to get guns and kill people. The rates in the US are much higher than in any European country or Australia and that is a solid fact. Just because you cannot eradicate gun crime completely why not reduce it significantly?

Higgs is a character. She will pause for like 5seconds before she says she doesn't have anything further.

I definitely feel conflicted about the death penalty, I just don't want JH to ever ever walk the streets. I don't trust if he goes to a mental institute that he wouldn't been on the streets at some point because the doctor says he is ok now. Look at John Hinckley Jr.

@Tammy they prove he bought the weapons and gear as well as is sane enough to pay his card and do business normally

@Tammy: IMO these bank records show sanity. He was making large purchases yet paying the credit card so it didn't exceed his credit limit. Note the timeframe too. One month before his massacre.

If they put his death on pay per view, would you buy / watch it?

Thanks!

@NT: "and now this clown." That's funny!!

@sally no worries i get those all the time :)

@BeaverBarber - Yes I would.

Here we go. Can't remember for sure. Were these emails to ex-girlfriend, Dr Fenton, both or somebody else?

I think that people like Holmes need to be permanently removed from living existence so that they will not be able to continue to harm society and cause continuing pain to his victims. Nothing but death is permanent. After the death penalty was briefly overturned in California, Charles Manson's death sentence sentence was changed to life with the possibility of parole. Same with Tex Watson. So Manson, who actually enjoys prison life, has been able to reach out to his supporters and continue to torture society with his "teachings". Watson, who got married to some idiot after his death penalty was changed to life with possibility of parole, fathered several children from conjugal visits and still hopes to be released by the Parole Board. To keep these scum in prison, victims' shattered family members need to keep attending parole hearings to give impact statements...talk about reliving the pain. This has been unrelenting since Manson and his murderous followers were jailed in 1970. If Holmes gets "life without parole", there is nothing to say that his sentence may not be overturned or significantly altered by court decisions in the future. If he is successfully executed for his crime would at least be a permanent and lasting removal of him from society.

I say we change the law! When you're caught red handed in any crime, you are immediately whisked away in handcuffs and taken before a judge. No need for jury, no need to put the victims thru any litigation, just sentence and be done. I would say this murderer was caught red handed.

It will be interesting if the PT objects and ask to approach as much as the DT does.

Resa, that pretty much would have happened if the death penalty had been taken off the table.

So I was just getting caught up and can't believe the news about the jury that was released today... gezz's what was she thinking that she could not be honest with knowing a witness!!

For about the third'ish time, I watched a Frontline episode on solitary confinement. IMO the only person who says they want solitary, has never experienced it. They showed a marked decline in all prisoners who were solitary (at least one stated he'd be fine with it and quickly declined in his mental state.) It makes the crazy go even crazier. Tossing feces, cutting themselves. It's quite literally mind torture. There is no rehabbing, if that's the goal. Prisons are trying to get away from segregation, but it's nearly impossible when they kill other prisoners or guards. Holmes would be in a living Hell if he were on 24/7 segregation with all the other nutsos on his block. They literally drive each other (even more) insane and get people to kill (or try to) themselves. It's not that they don't "deserve" that torture for being murderers, but it appears to be Hell on Earth, literally.

He's not insane right now so "restoring" him back to sanity isn't the issue. He's competent to participate in his trial. I cannot imagine ant

@chess I think she cast a lot of doubt into the case, in my opinion her testimony shows that JH was pretty unstable and possibly delusional and paranoid. I do think she should have done more rather than just medicating him and found out what the route cause of his thinking was. Especially when she said that he didn't answer her question on whether he had a plan. Major red flag surely.

@Tammy - not questioning mentally ill. I think there's little doubt. But a mentally ill person can know right vs. wrong. So far it seems to me the claim is JH was so beyond mentally ill to the point of insanity. I'm not sure I believe insane people can METHODICALLY plantlike this on so many levels. DT will have to prove they can.

I just have to say that Bonnie Kate is the most adorble thing ever. She seems like such a sweet person. I saw a video on the interet her boyfriend made of his process of proposing to her after the shooting (not sure how much after) and it is easy to see why he is so in love with her.