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Condemning movie massacre gunman James Holmes to 12 life sentences and the maximum 3,318 years in prison for his rampage in a midnight screening of a Batman film, a Colorado judge said on Wednesday that evil and mental illness are not mutually exclusive.

“Get the defendant out of my courtroom, please.”

The verdicts took 11 minutes to read.

“I am deeply, deeply sorry – that isn’t even the word”. They could have opted to give Holmes the death penalty.

He sat stony and silent in court as Samour read the verdict slips. Some cried, while others were angered Holmes escaped the death penalty, the New York Times reported. The same jury earlier rejected Holmes’ insanity defense, finding him capable of understanding right from...

This “may well be the most serious and important decision you ever have to make”. he said, and insisted that they each use “their own individual reasoned moral judgment” in deciding Holmes’s fate.

Twelve people were killed and 70 injured.

One of many jurors in James Holmes’ homicide trial was adamantly towards use of the demise penalty to punish the person who killed 12 individuals in an Aurora, Colorado, movie show in 2012.

Mr Brauchler recited the names and ages of the 12 people killed by Holmes and said they were at the heart of the case. The jury ultimately rejected this claim. Official sentencing is scheduled for August 24-26.

Some of the survivors and victims’ family members accepted the jury’s decision.

He said he’s seen James Holmes in jail only three times because his son typically doesn’t allow visitors.

Hickenlooper granted Dunlap an indefinite reprieve, citing doubts about the fairness of Colorado’s death penalty.

He was convicted last month of 24 counts of first-degree murder – two for each of the slain victims.

The 27-year-old former neuroscience graduate student will avoid the death penalty after the jury failed to reach the unanimous verdict required for the punishment after his deadly attack on a packed midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.

Colorado theater shooter James Holmes has been sentenced to life after a jury failed to agree on a death penalty.