
Originally Posted by
BigDee
So we can demand they try him and sentence him to death. The tax payers are on the hook for a million plus in the cost to try him. With a case this big the sentence will likely be appealed and if there is one I that is not dotted or one t that was not crossed in a police report or document presented at his trial there's a good chance he will be retried costing the tax payers even more money. There's also a chance that if something wasn't done correctly the trial could be declared a mistrial and he would go free. If everything is good to go and he is tried, found guilty and sent to death row he will likely never be executed and tax payers will be on the hook for his special detainment on death row and all of his legal costs incurred filing appeals. He'll likely die of old age on death row before he is executed and the tax payers will be on the hook for countless millions of dollars.
If the Prosecutors office accepts his request, he goes to prison for the rest of his life and will most likely spend the remainder of his life in solitary confinement. Mr. Holmes is going to be an extremely high profile inmate and anyone who kills him in prison will be deemed a hero because he is going to be considered a trophy. Spending a lifetime in a one man cell on 23 hour a day lock down is as good as any torture I've heard of.
As much as I'd like to see this dude fry I know it won't happen either way so in the interest of tax paying citizens I'm all for the plea deal that will sentence him to spend the rest of his natural life in a Colorado prison.