A jury recommended Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 murder of 17 people.
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.The Parkland school shooter has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School -- a move that stunned the families of his victims.
None of the jurors looked in the direction of the victims' families as their verdicts were read, but instead looked down or straight ahead. 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.
"I'm disgusted with those jurors," Alyssa's father, Ilan Alhadeff, said. "I'm disgusted with the system, that you can allow 17 dead and 17 others shot and wounded, and not get the death penalty. What do we have the death penalty for?" To illustrate their point, prosecutors detailed Cruz's thorough planning for the shooting, as well as comments he made online expressing his desire to commit a mass killing.
In closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors argued Cruz's decision to commit the shooting was deliberate and carefully planned, while Cruz's defense attorneys offered evidence of a lifetime of struggles at home and in school.
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