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Prosecutors want James Holmes dead.
The legal team prosecuting the shooter behind the Aurora theater shooting massacre announced today that they will pursue the death penalty against him.
9News reports that the DA’s office “reached out to more than 800 family members identified in this case.”
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Holmes’ lawyers previously offered a guilty plea in exchange for prosecutors’ scrapping the death penalty.
