Parkland shooting

Judge has no choice but to impose life without parole as jury cannot unanimously agree Nikolas Cruz deserves to die.

“Where was your remorse when you saw my father injured and bleeding on the floor and decided to shoot him for a third time?” Hixon told Cruz. He is not a victim of mental health issues. is a dramatic change for anyone,” he said. “To go from a younger brother to an only child ... Anthony Montalto III, whose older sister, 14-year-old Gina, was murdered by a bullet fired point-blank into her chest, said he was at the neighboring middle school and heard the shots. Even sicker to dwell on the desire and craft a plan and unimaginably evil to execute that plan, which didn’t just hurt people but ended lives,” Petty said.

Florida law requires a unanimous jury to impose the death penalty, which prosecutors had sought for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz.

Ron DeSantis (R) also argued the decision was a “miscarriage of justice,” saying the “only appropriate sentence for the massacre of 17 innocent people is the death penalty." [Parkland Families Express Rage and Grief at Gunman’s Sentencing](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/parkland-shooting-sentencing.html) (New York Times) [The Parkland school shooter is set to be sentenced to life in prison today](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/parkland-shooter-nikolas-cruz-sentencing-wednesday/index.html) (CNN) [Parkland Jury Verdict: Life In Prison For Gunman Nikolas Cruz](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/10/13/parkland-jury-verdict-life-in-prison-for-gunman-nikolas-cruz/?sh=4527379f40b1) (Forbes) [asked](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/parkland-shooting-sentencing.html) lawmakers to change Florida’s unanimous jury law, while they also had the chance to speak directly to Cruz, with one grandmother of a 14-year-old killed in the shooting [telling him](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/parkland-shooting-sentencing.html) he should “burn in hell." [Alabama](https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2020/01/23/florida-supreme-court-says-unanimous-jury-not-needed-for-death-penalty-in-major-reversal/)—as well as federal law requires a unanimous jury decision to impose the death penalty. [law](https://eji.org/news/new-florida-law-requires-unanimous-jury-for-death-sentence/) to require a unanimous jury to impose capital punishment (Florida’s Supreme Court in [2020](https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/florida-supreme-court-retracts-jury-unanimity-requirement-reinstates-non-unanimous-death-sentence) said a unanimous recommendation should no longer be required, but lawmakers have yet to make changes to the law, [according](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/parkland-shooting-sentencing.html) to the New York Times). [sentenced](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2022/10/13/parkland-jury-verdict-life-in-prison-for-gunman-nikolas-cruz/?sh=4527379f40b1) to life in prison after a grueling three-month trial in which prosecutors sought the death penalty for Cruz.

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.

A South Florida judge formally sentenced the gunman who killed 17 people — including 14 students — at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 to life ...

“After4½ grueling years of a failed judicial system to not hand down a death sentence to the murder of my daughter and 16 others, do I see this as accountability? “What I see is that the system values this animal’s life over the 17 now dead.” If you looked me in the face like I’m looking at you right now, you would see the scars on it from the hot shrapnel that was lodged into it … From the start, there have been concerns about the trauma victims and loved ones would be forced to relive. Scherer could not change their decision, sentencing Cruz to life in prison without parole on 34 counts, with the sentences to be served consecutively. A jury last month spared gunman Nikolas Cruz the death penalty after failing to reach a unanimous verdict as required under Florida law.

Nikolas Cruz gets 17 life terms for the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school that left 17 dead.

“You deserve the opportunity of knowing that justice will prevail at some point, causing you great anguish, minute by minute, day by day.” “From what I hear, child killers are highly frowned upon and hated in prison,” Beigel Schulman said to Cruz. “That’s real justice for you.”

Nikolas Cruz, 24, fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in 2018.

"He would have extended a hand to you. "There's so many people in this country who suffer mental illness," he said. Do you remember after you sprayed my classroom with bullets, standing in the door, peering in to see the work you've done? "You shouldn't be sitting there with a mask on your face. He would have loved you." She now is lonely and struggles to build real friendships because she's always looking over her shoulders. If you looked me in the face, like I'm looking at you right now, you would see the scars on it from the hot shrapnel that was lodged into it. She said Wednesday in court she watched Cruz kill two of her friends. This is wrong and needs to be fixed immediately." "Let me show how angry and frustrated I am with the judicial system. After 4 ½ grueling years, a failed judicial system did not hand down a death sentence to the murderer of my daughter and 16 others," he said. Last month, in a 9-3 vote, a jury leaned toward sending Cruz to death row, but