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.
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...
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 ...
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...
His voice breaking, Prosecutor Mike Satz concluded his two-hour closing statement to the jury by reciting the names of all 17 victims of the Valentine's Day 2018 massacre, saying that for their murders "the appropriate sentence for Nikolas Cruz is the death penalty." ...
Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Florida shooting suspect Nikolas CruzMichelle Mark
While Democratic Sen. Jason Pizzo voted for the bill, he warned senators that they shouldn't be passing legislation like this because of one case, even if they, like he, believe Cruz deserves the death penalty. "This deliberate body can't just immediately react to one particular horrific cas...
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. ...
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