Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler announced his team will seek the death penalty against James Holmes, accused of shooting 70 people, killing 12 during a midnight screening in Aurora Colorado.
Steven Ray Thacker, 42, who was convicted of committing three murders in a three-state killing spree in 1999, was executed at the Oklahoma State Prison in McAlester, Reuters reported.
Frederick Teesh, who fatally shot an adult bookstore security guard at the end of a multi state crime spree nearly 20 years ago, was pronounced dead after a single powerful dose of pentobarbital.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from an inmate, Nathan Dunlap who killed four people at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in 1993, giving a Colorado judge the ability to schedule the state's first execution in 15 years. The court's rejection has ended Dunlap's guaranteed appeals, and sends the case back to Colorado's 18th Judicial District, where a judge will set a time frame for execution.
