jurors not to use mental illness as an excuse for Holmes' crimes.

"He made a decision to massacre, and he did," Brauchler said. "Twelve dead from the community. Can anything outweigh that? No. No."

He counted off the victims, showing photos of the "Before" -- happy people enjoying life -- juxtaposed with grisly crime scene photos of the "After" -- bodies crumpled and bloodied, some of them frozen at odd angles as they attempted to escape Holmes' barrage of bullets.

Brauchler's closing argument, already disjointed, was thrown off by a courtroom outburst.

"He's wrong!" a woman shrieked. "Don't kill him! Don't kill him!"

The woman was sitting in the public courtroom seats. Deputies, who had kept an eye on her, moved quickly to eject her. But she could be heard screaming from thehall. It was yet another unsettling event at a trial full of disturbing sights and sounds.

The woman told deputies she was homeless. She seemed to have mental issues, saying she'd been harassed and forced to show identification to get into the courtroom.

In fact, security at the trial is tight, and everyone is screened before entering the courtroom.

The defense suggested it might be more "humane" to hospitalize the woman. But the judge held her in contempt of court and sentenced her to three weeks in jail, saying her actions were "extremely offensive to the authority and dignity of the court."

"It offends me as a human being," she shot back, "that other human beings kill each other legally. You can't justify murder with murder!" she shouted as she was led