Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes sentenced to life in prison

Unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the death penalty, a jury sentenced Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes to life in prison without parole for killing 12 and injuring 70 after he opened fire during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012. Holmes, who was previously convicted of 24 counts of first-degree murder and 140 counts of attempted murder, had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, though the prosecution argued that Holmes' theater attack was calculated and planned. Read more at The New York Times.

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Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.