Nikolas Cruz, a Florida school shooter who killed 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018, was spared the death penalty by a jury, leaving the victims’ relatives incensed, perplexed, and in tears.
Cruz won’t be eligible for parole and will serve the rest of his life behind bars.
If not now, when should the death sentence be applied? When? And there is no justification,” Joaquin Oliver victim Andrea Ghersi stated.
“There really shouldn’t have been a case.
There is no justification for allowing this rubbish to breathe.
After two days and seven hours of deliberation, the jury reached a verdict, bringing to a conclusion a three-month trial that featured heartbreaking testimony from the relatives of the victims as well as disturbing footage and images from the atrocity and its aftermath.
Mother of the victim Helena Ramsay, Anne Ramsay, stated: “After spending months and months, listening and hearing evidence, and looking at the murderer, his composure, I believe justice was not done.”
“Today’s decision was incorrect. ”
Cruz was referred to as a “beast” by Scott Beigel’s stepfather, Michael Schulman.
The shooter was shooting at my son when he spotted him for the last time.
The jury discovered mitigating reasons as well as aggravating factors to support the death penalty for each victim.
The jurors ultimately couldn’t come to a consensus that the aggravating circumstances exceeded the mitigating ones.
Families of the victims react angrily to the Parkland shooting verdict
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