Verdict in, read at 5p

[roberth]

Juror #17 confirmed on Chuck and Julie's show that one female juror in spite of overwhelming evidence would not budge from life in prison.

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Juror #17 confirmed on Chuck and Julie's show that one female juror in spite of overwhelming evidence would not budge from life in prison.

Like most, I'm disappointed. And I'm wondering how many more lives will be lost because of the hold-out's activism as copy cats see Holmes' fate/notoriety. That is why I just can't respect the hold-out. It's putting emotion over what is necessary. Sometimes doing the right thing is hard, unpopular, and hurts the feels. But not doing the right thing is worse.

Recent death sentences have been carried out in other states/cases for murdering just one person. We now have two cases of pure evil in CO (Dunlap, Holmes) and are unwilling/unable to create adequate disincentives. There are no shades of gray in these cases--they deliberately tried to murder as many innocent people as possible without a shred of doubt. And people still can't figure this out?!?!?!!!

Oh, and guns rights... Well if we can't appropriately punish the evil bastards and send a message then we have to ban guns and everything else because we can't assign responsibility to someone who is "insane" or "grew up in a bad home."

/rant