I think he might have slipped over time he earned a masters in 2010 and spent some time looking for work without success then he enrolled in a phd program in CO that is very demanding and he was not doing well in the courses and ended up with drawing from the course.
Seems like this Holmes was a fairly successful student and ran into trouble it is also possible that he had mental issues that people where not even aware of and the stress of his recent failures caused mental issues that perhaps he had been able to restrain over take him.
I am not saying that is an excuse and even if he has serious mental issues he can still know right from wrong.Just because someone is a "nutcase" does not mean that they cant plan a course of action in their mind the goal seems logical.I personally do not think that any person simply "snaps" it is a process that takes time months or even years and they might plan for a long time before they act before they have the complete will to act.
@Jimbuna just because a state has the death penalty does not mean that they will carry it out. California has death but no man on death row has been put to death since 2006.Compare that to Texas and Florida FL executed an inmate in April 2012.Texas put a man to death just a few days ago.Colorado last put a man to death in 1997.In some states it is really symbolic(stupid if you ask me) in ohters you actually will be dead man walking.Some in Florida and Texas have only spent 2 or 3 years on death row.
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