The jury sentencing Colorado shooter has reached their verdict that will be announced at 7 p.m. ET Friday.

On July 20, 2012, James Holmes open fired at an audience of defenseless people at a movie theater. Last month after 13 hours of deliberation, the same jury that has reached its decision on the death penalty, convicted Holmes of 24 counts of first-degree murder and 140 accounts of attempted murder, according to NBC News.

On Thursday afternoon, the jury began their 7-hour deliberation on whether or not Holmes will be given the death penalty.

The jury has already moved the trial on swiftly having to decide that there was substantial aggravating factors that put the death penalty on the plate, and that the defense’s arguments against assigning the death penalty were outweighed.

During the penalty phase, District Attorney George Brauchler said, “For James Egan Holmes, justice is death.”

If the jury has not decided on the death penalty, Holmes will still be sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole.

In defense of Holmes, his attorneys pleaded that he did in fact suffer from schizophrenia and that by bringing the death penalty into play would be an inhumane decision. His defense argued that he was not in the right mind at the time of the attack.

“The death of a seriously mentally ill man is not justice,” defense attorney Tamara Brady said.

At this time, there are only three people on death row in Colorado, one of the lower ranking of the 31 states that allow the death penalty as punishment. There has only been one modern execution in the state of Colorado and that was in 1997. Of the three people on death row now, appeals are pending for two of them while the other was granted reprieve.

If Holmes is assigned the death penalty, he will become the fourth person on death row in the state of Colorado.