Parkland shooting

An argument over whether or not the relatives of the victims should address the Parkland school shooter's defense attorneys during the sentencing hearing ...

“When these people are upset about specific things that have gone on from that table like shooting the middle finger up at this court and laughing and joking ... But Weekes returned to the podium. “No one was jumping up when they were referring to the defense’s children. One of the grieving fathers raised a comparison about the defense’s “tolerance for murder” and mentioned the defense’s children. “No one jumped when people were referring to Karma acting in the universe,” Weekes said referring to a grieving mother’s comment. Assistant State Attorney Jeff Marcus stood up and objected to Weekes’ statement saying the only violence in reference was that of the defendant.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz stands October 13 with members of his defense team at the Broward County Courthouse in Florida. Amy Beth Bennett/Pool/AFP/ ...

“I’m disgusted with the system, that you can allow 17 dead and 17 others shot and wounded, and not get the death penalty. “It wasn’t the extent of how we feel,” Fred Guttenberg told CNN last month after the jury’s decision. [told CNN affiliate WFOR](https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/) – a decision he disagreed with, noting: “I don’t like how it turned out, but … But those statements, according to the father of 14-year-old victim Jaime Guttenberg, who was among 14 students killed, did not include everything the families wanted to say because they had to be vetted by attorneys on both sides. “It’s not designed to create a system where vigilante justice is being encouraged. “He continues to have limitations to what he can and cannot do. “The gunshot actually stays with me in many ways beyond what is physical. Citing a trauma surgeon who treated her son, Bree Wikander described his injuries as “injuries similar to what a soldier would” suffer in combat. “At that time, Parkland murderer, it is my hope that you go somewhere to meet your maker,” Robinovitz said. “To this day, he is still recovering,” she said. I am broken and altered, and I will never look at the world the same way again.” One by one, families were informed of their loved ones’ deaths, until at last, only the Ramsay family was left, Anne Ramsay said.

Victims' families address Nikolas Cruz in court before he is sentenced to life in prison for attack that left 17 dead in February 2018.

Debra Hixon, whose husband, athletic director Chris Hixon, died after running at Cruz to stop him, said: “You stole him from us, and you did not receive the justice that you deserved. Cruz wounded her 17-year-old son Joaquin in the leg then tracked him to a bathroom alcove. The two have had a testy and sometimes hostile relationship since pre-trial hearings. Jurors said those voting for life believed Cruz is mentally ill and should be spared. For hours, parents, wives, siblings, children and some of the 17 Cruz also wounded stood 20ft from him. Some family members attacked Cruz’s public defenders, accusing them of misleading jurors into believing his birth mother’s excessive drinking left him brain damaged and unable to control himself.

Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter murdered cursed him to hell, wished him a painful death and called him a coward.

The gunman who murdered 17 people in 2018 at a South Florida high school is expected to be sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of ...

[Three jurors were persuaded to vote for life](http://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/nikolas-cruz-jury-life-recommendation-whats-next/index.html), sparing Cruz a death sentence, which in Florida a jury must unanimously recommend. [The defense, pushing for a life sentence](http://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/us/nikolas-cruz-defense-life-prison/index.html), pointed to the shooter’s mental or intellectual deficits they said stemmed from prenatal alcohol exposure. [despite the continued American gun violence epidemic](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/25/us/st-louis-school-shooting-victims/index.html) remains [the deadliest mass shooting at a US high school](https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/19/us/mass-shootings-fast-facts/index.html;). “And burn in hell.” [a jury declined to recommend a death sentence](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/us/nikolas-cruz-jury-deliberation-thursday/index.html). [ including some who confronted Cruz ](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/nikolas-cruz-parkland-victim-testimony-sentencing/index.html)Tuesday in court.

The gunman who killed 17 people in the Parkland shooting is expected to be sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the 2018 high school massacre in ...

"To add insult to murder he was even arrogant enough to plan a disguise believing that he'd be able to escape his actions while my sister lay dying on a dirty classroom floor." Those who spoke Tuesday and Wednesday went to a lectern about 20 feet from the 24-year-old gunman, stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief. He had been planning the shooting for seven months. "The idea that you, a cold-blooded killer, can actually live each day, eat your meals and put your head down at night seems completely unjust," teacher Stacey Lippel, who was wounded in the shooting, told the gunman. Before Nikolas Cruz formally receives his sentence, family members of the victims and survivors of the shooting are being given more time to address him. Her younger sister, 14-year-old Alaina, died when the gunman fired his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle into her classroom as he stalked the halls of a three-story building for seven minutes, firing 140 shots.

After a jury recommended the sentence, the judge could not change it. But she did allow victims and families to speak directly to Nikolas Cruz for the first ...

"So, yes, I'm going to ask the Florida legislature to amend that statute." (In federal courts and in every state in which jurors determine the sentence, with the sole exception of Alabama, unanimous verdicts are required for capital punishment.) "The only comfort I have is that your life in prison will be filled with horror and fear." "It's irresponsible for you to make a statement that is an outright lie," Schachter said. One wished for him to "burn in hell." "I did my job and every member of his team did their job, Judge. He also received a life sentence for each count of attempted first-degree murder, one for each of the 17 he wounded. And he accused McNeill of falsely claiming that Cruz had not received adequate mental health treatment. Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed, said she hopes that Cruz is "miserable for the rest of your pathetic life. The way that you have behaved so gracefully, and showed extraordinary restraint throughout this process, is something that I've never seen," Scherer said. He escaped from the scene by dropping his gun and running among the fleeing students, authorities later said, and was caught by police about an hour later. 14, 2018, Cruz returned to the high school in Parkland, Fla., where he had been a student.