Let me get this straight... you commit mass murder, then select your own sentence?  I don't think so!  James Holmes deserved the death penalty.  It was one juror who kept that from happening.  You kill a dozen people and wound 70 others, you should count on facing the death penalty in Colorado.  No one could have predicted how the sentencing phase would have turned out at the beginning of the trial.  George Brauchler did the right thing in the Aurora Theater shooting.