James Holmes trial
Sandy Phillips, right, who lost her daughter in the massacre in an Aurora, Colo., theatre in July 2012, embraces an unidentified woman as Phillips leaves the Arapahoe County Courthouse after a jury failed to agree on whether theater shooter James Holmes should get the death penalty on Aug. 7, 2015, in Centennial, Colo.
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Terry Sullivan, second from left, whose son Alex was killed on his birthday in the 2012 Aurora movie theatre attack, embraces Bryan Beard, Alex’s best friend, as Alex’s father Tom looks on at right, after a jury failed to agree on whether theater shooter James Holmes should get the death penalty on Aug. 7, 2015, in Centennial, Colo.
(Brennan Linsley / AP)Dist. Atty. George Brauchler speaks during a news conference after the sentencing verdict for James Holmes, for whom he had sought the death penalty. “I asked them to trust me and follow me,” he said of victims’ relatives and survivors of the shooting. “And I came up short, and that’s my fault, and that’s what hurts.”
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