Joker on the road to the chair

Justice will finally be served in the Aurora theatre shootings. That's right, the prosecution has announced it will seek the death penalty for James Eagan Holmes after rejecting a guilty plea offer by the defense. But the murder trial will not start until next year, and will go forward under a new judge. The defense was ready to allow Holmes to plead guilty in exchange for the prosecution taking the death penalty off the table. But a grim George Brauchler, district attorney for Colorado's 18th Judicial District, formally rejected the offer. “It is my determination and my intention that in this case, for James Eagan Holmes, justice is death,” Brauchler said at a court hearing on Monday. And death it shall be because his stupidity ended the lives of twelve people and the unborn baby of one of the survivors. On another death-related topic, Texas prosecutors are dropping like flies. Whoever's responsible should stop it and give themselves up so as not to make things worse.