James Holmes on Monday was charged with 142 criminal counts in connection with the midnight shooting rampage at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 and injured dozens earlier this month. The 24-year-old former neuroscience graduate student faces a total of 24 murder charges: half of which were of the first-degree variety and the other 12 being "murder with extreme indifference," according to Reuters. The minimum sentence for those charges are life without parole; the maximum is the death penalty. |
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