Under Florida law, a decease condemnation requires a unanimous ballot connected astatine slightest 1 count. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer volition formally contented the condemnation later. | Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP
Florida schoolhouse shooter Nikolas Cruz volition beryllium sentenced to beingness without parole for the 2018 execution of 17 radical astatine Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, aft the assemblage said Thursday that it could not unanimously hold that helium should beryllium executed.
The jury’s proposal came aft 7 hours of deliberations implicit 2 days, ending a three-month proceedings that included graphic videos, photos and grounds from the massacre and its aftermath, heart-wrenching grounds from victims’ household members and a circuit of the inactive blood-spattered building.
Under Florida law, a decease condemnation requires a unanimous ballot connected astatine slightest 1 count. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer volition formally contented the condemnation later.
Cruz, his hairsbreadth unkempt, mostly sat hunched implicit and stared astatine the array arsenic the jury’s recommendations were read. Rumblings grew from the household conception — packed with astir 3 twelve parents, spouses and different relatives of the victims — arsenic beingness sentences were announced. Many shook their heads, looked aggravated oregon covered their eyes.
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