The two-day sentencing hearing for the Florida school shooter has begun with the families of the 17 people he murdered in Parkland getting their chance to address him directly about the devastation he brought to their lives.
The two-day sentencing hearing for the Florida school shooter begins Tuesday with the families of the 17 people he murdered in Parkland getting their chance after almost five years to address him directly about the devastation he brought to their lives.
After the families and the 17 people Nikolas Cruz wounded get their chance to speak, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer on Wednesday will formally sentence him towithout parole for his Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She has no other option as the jury in his recently concluded penalty trial could not unanimously agree that the 24-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student deserved a death sentence.
The families gave highly emotional statements during the trial, but were restricted about what they could tell jurors: They could only describe their loved ones and the toll the killings had on their lives. The wounded could only say what happened to them. They were barred from addressing the gunman directly or saying anything about him — a violation would have risked a mistrial. And the jurors were told they couldn't consider the family statements as aggravating factors as they weighed whether the gunman should die.
"The reality is that I will still visit Jaime at the cemetery and the monster's fate will not change. It has already been decided. With that decision made, the monster is out of my head," Guttenberg
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