Parkland shooting

A former student who pleaded guilty last year to murdering 17 people at a Florida high school should not be executed, a jury decided.

To do so, the jury must again be unanimous; otherwise the sentencing recommendation must be for life in prison without possibility of parole. A vast majority of the prospective jurors were eliminated in the first phase of jury selection because their jobs or life circumstances would not allow them to commit to serving for the four months the trial was expected to last. An appeals court removed her, and she no longer handles cases or warrants from the Hollywood Police Department. Judge Scherer is a graduate of Florida State University and the University of Miami School of Law. Enough serious errors could lead to the reversal of a death sentence on appeal, forcing a retrial years from now. That a victim was an appointed public official engaged in the performance of his or her official duties. In Florida, a death sentence in a case involving multiple murder victims requires a unanimous jury vote in at least one of the killings. Satz recited from memory one of the videos that Mr. McNeill successfully kept a man from facing death for the murder of his wife. In addition to asking to examine the AR-15 used in the massacre, the jurors also asked for portions of a neuropsychologist’s testimony to be read back to them yesterday. On the 15th and 16th counts of first-degree murder, for Joaquin Oliver and Jaime Guttenberg, the jury has also recommended a life sentence for Nikolas Cruz. Legal experts said that while it is difficult to extrapolate from one case, the jury's decision to spare the Parkland gunman's life came as people grow increasingly wary of the death penalty.

A jury rejected the death penalty for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas ...

He was doomed in the womb." He played security videos of the shooting and showed gruesome crime scene and autopsy photos. Woodard "poisoned him in the womb. He took the jury to the fenced-off building, which remains blood-stained and bullet-pocked. He talked about the death of one 14-year-old girl. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting to ever go to trial. His first reaction was to protect students and stop the carnage. Rumblings grew from the family section — packed with about three dozen parents, spouses, and other relatives of the victims — as life sentences were announced. He was on patrol there the day a former student opened fire on campus. He should’ve received the death sentence today." Relatives, along with the students and teachers Cruz wounded, will be given the opportunity to speak at the sentencing hearing. "There is no reason, and if there is a reason why are we allowing people to randomly kill people."

A jury has recommended that Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman ...

“The appropriate sentence for Nikolas Cruz is the death penalty,” he concluded. The jury found the aggravating factors presented by state prosecutors did not outweigh the mitigating circumstances – aspects of Cruz’s life and upbringing his defense attorneys said warranted only a life sentence. Cruz – flanked by his attorneys, wearing a blue and gray sweater over a collared shirt and eyeglasses – sat expressionless, looking down at the table in front of him. Cruz’s adoptive mother was not open about this fact with medical and mental health professionals or educators, preventing him from receiving the appropriate interventions, the defense claimed. “Do we? Under Florida law, however, she cannot depart from the jury’s recommendation of life.

Jurors determined Thursday that Nikolas Cruz should be sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for a 2018 school shooting in Parkland, ...

Cruz, who at the time of the shooting was 19 and had been expelled from the high school, had apologized for his crimes and asked to be given a life sentence without the possibility of parole in order to dedicate his life to helping others. Cruz, 24, had pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty a year ago to killing 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school.

This decision only makes it more likely that the next mass shooting will be attempted.” Two Stoneman Douglas students later killed themselves, one a close friend of one of the victims. [He] pressed the barrel of his weapon to my daughter’s chest, that doesn’t outweigh that what’s-his-name had a tough upbringing? My beautiful Gina, the other sons, daughters, spouses and fathers, they were the victims here. Others were in tears and hugged each other as the verdicts were read. “Society has to re-examine who and what is a victim.

Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018.

Cruz's rampage is the deadliest mass shooting to go to trial in the U.S., according to The Associated Press. A previous version of this story said Cruz has been sentenced to life in prison. Late that day, the jury asked to see the murder weapon. "You now know that Nikolas is a brain-damaged, broken, mentally-ill person, through no fault of his own," Cruz's lawyer, Melissa McNeil, stated in closing arguments. Prosecutors had pushed for the death sentence. "That you can allow 17 dead and 17 others shot and wounded and not give the death penalty. Following the jury's recommendation, prosecutors requested that those who were victims of Cruz be allowed to present testimony about the crime and what they see as the appropriate sentence. The jury unanimously found that there had been aggravating factors in the murders Cruz committed. The question facing jurors now was whether Cruz would spend the rest of his life in prison or be sentenced to death. You set a precedent for the next mass killing, that nothing happens to you. He entered a school building through an unlocked side door and used an AR-15-style rifle to kill 14 students and three staff members, as well as wound 17 others. Cruz carried out the massacre on Valentine's Day in 2018.

The sentence caps an emotional three-month trial in which victim relatives and survivors recounted the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre in painful detail.

The death penalty was on the table, but the jury would've had to reach that decision unanimously.

He will be in the custody of the Broward County Sherriff's Office until then. What's next: Cruz will be officially sentenced to life without parole on Nov. 17 people were brutally murdered," said Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff, was murdered in the shooting. I'm devastated. I'm disgusted with those jurors. - "I'm disgusted with our legal system.