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.

The gunman who killed 17 people in the Parkland shooting is expected to be sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the 2018 high school massacre in ...

"To add insult to murder he was even arrogant enough to plan a disguise believing that he'd be able to escape his actions while my sister lay dying on a dirty classroom floor." Those who spoke Tuesday and Wednesday went to a lectern about 20 feet from the 24-year-old gunman, stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief. He had been planning the shooting for seven months. "The idea that you, a cold-blooded killer, can actually live each day, eat your meals and put your head down at night seems completely unjust," teacher Stacey Lippel, who was wounded in the shooting, told the gunman. Before Nikolas Cruz formally receives his sentence, family members of the victims and survivors of the shooting are being given more time to address him. Her younger sister, 14-year-old Alaina, died when the gunman fired his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle into her classroom as he stalked the halls of a three-story building for seven minutes, firing 140 shots.

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.

It's the second day of a hearing that will end with Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz formally sentenced to life without parole for the Valentine's Day ...

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Members of the victims' families and some of the 17 wounded who survived went to a lectern about 20 feet from the shooter on Tuesday, stared him in the eye ...

“You deserve the opportunity to absorb the look of terror on your face once you leave this courtroom. “Your defense preyed on the idea of your humanity, but you had none for those you encountered on Feb. “You deserve the opportunity to rot away,” David Alhadeff, the uncle of Alyssa Alhadeff, told Cruz via Zoom from his classroom in Maryland. [Cruz on Tuesday,](https://apnews.com/article/parkland-shooter-sentencing-updates-4ae36897650b63b1d2747abdde1ece68?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_08) stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief, with many telling the 24-year-old they hope his remaining years are filled with the fear and pain he inflicted. “Just to be in the same room as this monster who killed our son Nicholas and attempted to murder our son Alex. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer has no choice but to impose that sentence, as the jury in Cruz’s penalty trial could not unanimously agree that he deserved the death penalty.

A judge is set to sentence the gunman who killed 17 people and injured 17 others in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, ...

“I believe it’s your decision to decide where I go and whether I live or die — not the jury’s,” he said. “What he wanted to do, what his plan was and what he did was to murder children at school and their caretakers,” prosecutor Mike Satz said during closing statements. In court, he apologized and said he believed that families of the victims should determine his punishment. “After today, I don’t care what happens to you.” Prosecutors and victims described Cruz as a cold, calculated killer. The sentence follows a recommendation last month from a jury that determined Nikolas Cruz should not be sentenced to death.

Before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer issues her sentence on Wednesday, the Parkland school shooter still has to listen to more victims air out ...

Oliver said he was watching the proceedings outside of the courtroom because he didn’t want his reaction to cause a mistrial. The jury’s majority wanted Cruz to be sentenced to the death penalty, but in 2016 Florida law started to require unanimous agreement. He also said they will be committed to continuing their advocacy work in memory of their beautiful girl. One for each of the 34 victims: 17 killed and 17 injured. Before the sentence, Nikolas Cruz told Scherer he was under psychiatric treatment. – Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentenced the Parkland school shooter to 34 consecutive mandatory life sentences in prison without the possibility of parole.

Survivors and loved ones of victims of the Parkland school shooting are confronting gunman Nikolas Cruz for a second day before he is sentenced.

"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. Families and the wounded spent two days verbally thrashing Cruz, wishing him a painful demise and lamenting that he could not be sentenced to death.

The sentence, handed down by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, was a formality after a jury last month voted to spare Cruz of the death penalty.

The stories of the victims' execution were retold in graphic detail over the course of the three-month trial. "This should have been the death penalty one hundred percent," said Alyssa's mother, Lori Alhadeff. Cruz, who was 19 at the time of the massacre and now 24, pleaded guilty in 2021 to killing 17 people and wounding 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. Three students died by suicide in the aftermath of the shooting, Fuentes told him. Alyssa Alhadeff's parents said they didn’t doubt their daughter’s killer would be sentenced to death. Annika Dworet, whose 17-year-old son Nicholas was killed in the shooting, asked what crime, if not Cruz's, could warrant the death penalty. history, in which Cruz shot and killed 17 people and injured others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. "Are you freaking kidding me?" Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of murder. When he pleaded guilty, Cruz asked for forgiveness. "Ask me if I feel sorry for Mr. [spare Cruz of the death penalty](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2022/10/13/vpc-parkland-shparkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz-gets-life-without-parole-jury-declines-death-pen/10486859002/).

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.

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.”

Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz formally sentenced · 5:07 p.m. ET, November 2, 2022. Parkland murderer sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of ...

Members of the Broward County Sheriff's Department then escorted Cruz out of the courtroom. At the end of the hearing, the judge remanded Cruz to the Department of Corrections. She was not allowed to depart from the jury’s guidance.

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

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was formally sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison after families presented victim impact statements during the ...

"Where was your remorse when you saw my father injured and bleeding on the floor and decided to shoot him for a third time?" "Your defence preyed on the idea of your humanity, but you had none for those you encountered on Feb. 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," she 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 Tuesday that he was at the neighbouring middle school and heard the gunshots. He had been planning the shooting for seven months.

Nikolas Cruz received a sentence for killing 17 students and staff during the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban ...

“I will live with that — and you will live with that indifferently.” Worse, we sent the message to the next killer out there that the death penalty would not be applied to mass killing. “What I see is that the system values this animal’s life over the 17 now dead. “I saw you enjoy it,” he told Cruz. Her son, teacher Scott Beigel, was shot in the back as he led students to safety in his classroom. Many wished him a painful demise and lamented that he could not be sentenced to death.