{"id":107,"date":"2015-08-09T15:53:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.themevan.com\/citynews\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-08-09T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T15:53:48","slug":"victims-speak-out-after-colorado-massacre-trial-ends-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/2015\/08\/09\/victims-speak-out-after-colorado-massacre-trial-ends-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims speak out after Colorado massacre trial ends in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They gathered on the patio of an Irish pub hours after the stunning verdict on Friday, when the jury said they could not reach a unanimous decision on the appropriate punishment for Holmes, who killed 12 people and wounded 70 three years ago at a midnight screening of a Batman film.<\/p>\n<p>That meant the former neuroscience graduate student will serve a mandatory life sentence with no possibility of parole. The atmosphere among the victims at the bar was upbeat, however. The strongest emotion was relief that it is all over.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Teves, whose son 24-year-old Alex was killed, said about half of the dead victims&#8217; relatives, including him and his wife Caren, opposed the decision to seek execution for the gunman.<\/p>\n<p>But, Teves said, they ultimately supported the move in deference to those who did want the death penalty, and he praised District Attorney George Brauchler and his team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m as disappointed for them (the prosecutors) as they are today,&#8221; Teves said, sipping on a bottled domestic beer.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering was also attended by prosecutor Lisa Teesch-Maguire, the prosecution team&#8217;s liaison to the families.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the victims hugged her, and the father of one of those killed by Holmes told her that he was comforted there would not be prolonged appeals of a death sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They gathered on the patio of an Irish pub hours after the stunning verdict on Friday, when the jury said they could not reach a unanimous decision on the appropriate punishment for Holmes, who killed 12 people and wounded 70 three years ago at a midnight screening of a Batman film. That meant the former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.focuxtheme.com\/citynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}