Penalty Phase of Colorado Shooter Trial Underway

Jurors deciding whether Colorado movie massacre gunman James Holmes should be executed began the punishment phase of his trial on Wednesday, considering aggravating factors, including his murder of a six-year-old girl. "She had four separate gunshot wounds to her little body," prosecutor Rich Orman told the jury, referring to Veronica Moser-Sullivan, the youngest victim of the 12 Holmes killed. Seventy people were wounded. The jury of nine women and three men last week...

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