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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
This shows the ignorance some people have regarding mental illness. Holmes wasnt spared the death penalty because he was schizophrenic. In fact he was not psychotic at the time of the shooting. He had planned the shooting for months, rigged his apartment with explosives, wore body armour and wrote for months in a journal about how he wanted to kill as many people as possible. Several psychiatrists found him sane at the time of the shooting. He has schizoaffective disorder but was not experiencing a psychotic break. He knew exactly what he was doing. And a plea deal with a guilty plea spared him the death penalty.
Just learn something. Anything.
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This isn't quite correct.
He was found guilty, after a trial. There was no plea deal. The judge accepted his plea, but that just means that the judge accepted whether he was pleaded guilty or not-guilty, for example.
Jurors did not unanimously give him the death sentence, as some took his history of mental health issues into account during sentencing.
You're overall point is correct though. Entirely different situation. Holmes was found to have a mental illness, but totally able to understand the nature of his actions as they related to the charges against him.