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The Latest: Theater shooting trial’s sentencing phase begins

While her 6-year-old grandson, Ace, stays by her side, Kathi Darciprette, right, hangs a marker back on the cross for Micayla Medek, one of the victims of the massacre in a nearby movie theatre, after writing a message on a heart handing from the cross as mourners mark the day of the third anniversary of the shooting spree Monday, July 20, 2015, in Aurora, Colo. James Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in neuroscience, could get the death penalty for the massacre that left 12 people dead and dozens of others wounded early Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) While her 6-year-old grandson, Ace, stays by her side, Kathi Darciprette, right, hangs a marker back on the cross for Micayla Medek, one of the victims of the massacre in a nearby movie theatre, after writing a message on a heart handing from the cross as mourners mark the day of the third anniversary of the shooting spree Monday, July 20, 2015, in Aurora, Colo. James Holmes, who had been working toward his Ph.D. in neuroscience, could get the death penalty for the massacre that left 12 people dead and dozens of others wounded early Friday, July 20, 2012. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

By Associated Press July 22, 2015 1 min read

CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – The latest in the sentencing phase of the Colorado theater shooting trial (all times local):

9:55 a.m.

Lawyers for Colorado theater shooter James Holmes are objecting to how prosecutors want to begin arguing that Holmes should be executed.

The attorneys are talking about the trial’s sentencing phase that began Wednesday.

Jurors will first hear from prosecutors, who want to show jurors a slide show including pictures of all the victims. Holmes’ lawyers say the slide show is inflammatory.

Prosecutors and the defense are expected to spend about a month making their cases for why Holmes should be either executed or sentenced to life in prison.

The jurors last week convicted Holmes of 165 counts of murder and other crimes stemming from his 2012 attack on a crowded movie theater that killed 12 people and injured 70.