The guilty pleas will set the stage for a penalty trial in which 12 jurors will determine whether Cruz, 23, should be sentenced to death or life in prison without parole. Given the case’s notoriety, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer plans to screen thousands of prospective jurors. Jury ...
Defense attorneys are hoping to avoid the death penalty and will likely present Cruz's history of mental illness to jurors, attempting to argue for a life sentence instead. Cruz said the victims' families and not a jury should be the ones to decide if he lives or dies. He said he unders...
Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, should receive life in prison, a jury recommended.
Cruz’s adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, died in November from the flu and pneumonia, her cousin Kathie Blaine toldCNN. His adoptive father died more than ten years ago from a heart attack. Cruz had been living with a friend’s family since his mother’s death, according to an attorney who...
Update: Prosecutors are requesting the death penalty for the innocent Nikolas Cruz. Literally and figuratively a FALL GUY. Who made Nikolas Cruz the fall guy for the Parkland shooting? And why? “If no one comes to the defense of Nikolas Cruz, based on so much hard, anecdotal and circumstan...
Cruz, who turned 24 on Saturday,pleaded guiltylast October to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members. The seven-man, five-woman jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole, weighing aggravating factors presented by prosecutors against the defens...
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Florida shooting suspect Nikolas CruzMichelle Mark
As he spoke to the media, Schulman held up a laptop with an image of Cruz in the school hallway with a gun. "The last thing my son saw was the gunman aiming at him," he said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said it "stings" that Cruz did not receive the death penalty. ...
Here’s what we know: Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, has avoided the death penalty.
In mid-October, a Broward County, Florida, jury recommended that Cruz should get life in prison but not the death penalty for the killings. The jury had failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a recommendation for the death penalty on all counts. ...