Unable to unanimously agree on the death penalty, a Colorado jury gave James Holmes life in prison without possibility of parole in the killing of 12 people at an Aurora movie theater in 2012.

Watch the verdict here, via Yahoo News.

According to The New York Times, “On each count, Judge Samour read, the panel had been unable to agree that Mr. Holmes should be put to death, and that jurors understood that as a result, the court will impose a sentence of life imprisonment. Only one juror needed to dissent for the sentence to be life in prison.” Read more here.

–Posted by Roisin Davis

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