BROWN: After 11 weeks of testimony, closing arguments are just getting under way just moments ago in the Colorado theater shooting trial. The defendant, James Holmes, is charged with multiple accounts of murder and attempted murder. And he faces the death penalty. During today's jury instructions, the judge read all of the names of the victims of the July 2012 shooting rampage. CNN's Ana Cabrera is monitoring the trial for us.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At that time, did you have any doubt that you would end up killing a lot of people?</s>JAMES HOLMES, DEFENDANT: No.</s>ANA CABRERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): James Holmes describes a mission to kill.</s>HOLMES: Well, the dead can't be repaired or come back to life or be normal again. So it's kind of irreversible.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard you say was that that accrues to something positive for you.</s>HOLMES: Right.</s>CABRERA: His words likely to linger with jurors.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What about the wounded?</s>HOLMES: They're collateral damage, I guess.</s>CABRERA: Holmes chose not to take the witness stand but prosecutors played 22 hours of videotaped interviews with a court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr. William Reid, one of two mental health experts who concluded Holmes suffered mental illness, but was legally sane when he carried out the attack.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The delusions propelled him to commit this act.</s>CABRERA: The defense battled back with its own experts. Dr. Raquel Gur told jurors those delusions made Holmes believe killing would increase his own self-worth.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I do not believe that without the delusion and without being mentally, this would have ever happened.</s>CABRERA: And the defense showed videos of Holmes in jail acting strangely, falling backwards from his bunk a few months after the shooting, before being hospitalized for a psychotic episode, proof of his insanity, they say.
Closing Arguments in James Holmes Trial