The man who was convicted of killing 12 people and wounding 70 others inside a Colorado cinema has been formally sentenced to life in prison.<br /><br /> James Holmes, a neuroscience graduate student, was earlier spared the death penalty by jurors.<br /><br /> He will serve the 12 sentences consecutively and have no possibility of parole.<br /><br /> On 20 July 2012, Holmes attacked cinema goers watching a midnight screening of Batman film The Dark Knight Rises with a semi-automatic rifle, a shotgun and a pistol.<br /><br /> Although his lawyers claimed he was mentally ill, prosecutors argued the attack was clearly premeditated, with Holmes planning and amassing weapons for months.
