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Gun Violence Jurors Carry Existential Wounds

January 13, 2016

Jury boxPhoto by Jason Doiy2-9-11054-2011

In the case of James Holmes, the man who killed 12 in an Aurora, Colo. movie theater in 2012, the jurors who spent 14 weeks listening to witness accounts, holding murder weapons, and looking at images of the dead or dying, now carry a trauma of their own. Four months after the trial’s end, the AP reports that one juror cut her hair out of fear of being recognized, another cannot sleep without nightmares, and many began to see therapists to deal with post-traumatic stress. In that suit, a single juror’s exception kept the trial from ending in a death sentence for Holmes, who instead received life in prison.

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