What Does James Holmes Deserve Justice?

The Aurora Theatre Shooting July 20, 2012 the day twelve people were killed and seventy others were left injured when James Holmes walked into the Cinemark’s Aurora Century 16 theater and opened fire. This incident occurred four years ago, but will never be forgotten. After reading articles by Charlotte Alter and Ben Markus the question now is whether or not James Holmes was in a good mental state or if his mental illness triggered him to harm many people and their families. These two authors continue to wonder whether or not James Holmes deserves justice. On this day in July, James Holmes entered the theatre destroying many plans, futures, and most importantly, many lives. Although there’s been many opinions and thoughts about why the suspect did what he did, it all comes down to one thing and that …show more content…
An article written by Charlotte Alter describes an interesting piece of evidence that was given to the jury. After the tragic event a notebook that had James Holmes’s ramblings, sketches and thoughts on things from the meaning of life to murdering people was shown at the trial. The journal is where Holmes wrote a “self diagnosis of a broken mind”. A broken mind is what James Holmes described himself as, meaning his mind was a mess. He wrote the word “Why” repeatedly amongst the pages and mentions “When mankind can’t find truth, untruth is converted to truth via violence.” James Holmes obviously resulted in finding the truth taking it out at a theatre with a numerous amount of people. Holmes described his mental struggles as “the real me is fighting the biological me” meaning James Holmes himself knew and believed that there was something wrong with him. This notebook that belonged to Holmes proved to be a good article of evidence for public officials who argued that James wasn’t himself on that day and he was only experiencing a psychotic episode on July 20th when he harmed