The parents of two slain victims sat in the audience Monday, watching silently as the prosecutor and defense lawyer asked their questions and listened to juror responses.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case entered the second of three phases Monday, with lawyers looking to weed out those whose views on the death penalty are too inflexible to be part of a fair trial.to 17 counts of first-degree murder, so the jury is being asked only to decide his punishment. A jury’s unanimous vote is required to sentence Cruz to death; otherwise he will be sentenced to life in prison.
“I’m not opposed to the death penalty,” one panelist said. “It’s just that I don’t know what the mitigating factors are in this case.” Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer adjusted her second-phase plan after it took four hours to get through four jurors, one at a time. Even quickening the pace, she said, it would take nine weeks to get through the approximately 400 jurors who survived the first phase of screening in April.
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