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Members of the Broward County Sheriff's Department then escorted Cruz out of the courtroom. The chosen facility is determined by “reviewing the seriousness of (the inmate’s) offenses, length of sentence, time remaining to serve, prior criminal record, escape history, prison adjustment, and other factors,” according to the Florida Department of Corrections website. A two-day hearing is scheduled to begin Tuesday that will conclude with Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer formally sentencing Nikolas Cruz for his Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. According to the motion, the cost of housing Cruz from Feb. 14, 2018, to Oct. 26, 2022, when the motion was filed, totaled $321,659.
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This should have been the death penalty 100%,” said Lori Alhadeff, who has a “Live for Alyssa” tattoo on her arm. Following the verdict, Alyssa's parents denounced the jury's recommendation. Lori Alhadeff, the mother of Alyssa Alhadeff, dropped her head into her hand as the verdict related to her daughter was read.
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"I assure you you will not be famous for this," Fuentes said to Cruz, adding that those who died in the massacre "will have a legacy much more important than you." Gonzalez spoke while wearing Oliver's t-shirt that he wore the night before he was killed, which read, in Spanish, "You with bullets, I with balls." Weekes had criticized some of Tuesday's testimony for verbally attacking defense lawyers, and claimed that the defendant's lawyers were just doing their jobs as the law provides criminal defendants a right to legal representation.
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A two-day hearing is scheduled to begin Tuesday that will conclude with Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer formally sentencing Cruz for his Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Because the jury at his penalty trial could not unanimously agree that the 24-year-old deserved a death sentence, Scherer can only sentence the former Stoneman Douglas student to life without parole — an outcome most of the families criticized. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison this week — but not before the families of the 17 people he murdered get the chance to tell him what they think.
Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after the jury said Thursday that it could not unanimously agree that he should be executed. Fathers, mothers, cousins and other loved ones of those who were murdered in the 2018 Parkland school massacre gave emotional reactions immediately after a jury decided to recommend life in prison without parole for Nikolas Cruz. Cruz pleaded guilty last year to 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder in connection to the Feb. 14, 2018, killing of 14 students and three staff members at his former school. Among the victims were 15-year-old Peter Wang, an Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet who died while helping classmates escape, and 35-year-old Scott Beigel, a geography teacher who was shot dead while shepherding students to safety in his classroom. Earlier this year the Florida Supreme Court granted a Death Row inmate's request to disqualify her from his case because of actions after Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison last year. On Wednesday, following two days of impassioned statements from victims and family members, the judge read off each count of murder and attempted murder, 34 in total.
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Thomas told other local media outlets that one juror felt Nikolas Cruz was mentally ill and therefore should not be sentenced to death. The jury is sequestered, staying at an undisclosed hotel with no cell phones and no television. Jurors are allowed one phone call a day and that will be monitored by a law enforcement officer.
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On October 20, 2021, Cruz pleaded guilty to all charges and apologized for his crimes. Nikolas Jacob Cruz (born September 24, 1998)[1][2][3] is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, where he shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others on February 14, 2018. In 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his involvement in the deaths and injuries caused during the shooting, which is the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. Benjamin Thomas, the foreperson for the jury that recommended the Parkland school shooter be sentenced to life in prison, told CNN affiliate WFOR that three jurors voted against the death penalty. Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has been spared the death penalty and sentenced to life in prison by a Florida jury for carrying out the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that claimed 17 lives.
To reach that decision, each juror had to vote 17 times - once for each victim. In their votes, jurors unanimously found that the established aggravating factors were sufficient to warrant a possible sentence of death. However, the jury found the mitigating factors outweighed the aggravating factors. Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver's family expressed shock and disgust after shooter Nikolas Cruz avoided the death penalty as a jury recommended life without the possibility of parole on all counts against him.
"This is insane. Everyone knows right? This is insane," Chen Wang, cousin of shooting victim Peter Wang, said at a news conference after the jury’s decision was read. Manuel Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was among the victims, told ABC News Live he had hoped for the death penalty. That led to an exchange between the prosecution and Judge Elizabeth Scherer. The judge initially said she intended to send the firearm to the jury, but was unable to because of "security reasons." The Broward County Sheriff's Office did not want to take the unloaded, inoperable firearm back to the jury room at that time. On Wednesday, they deliberated for about six hours, including asking to have read back to them the prosecution's cross-examination of a defense psychologist Dr. Paul Connor who said Cruz suffers from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. They also asked for a read back of Dr. Robert Denny's testimony, he was the neuropsychologist who interviewed Cruz in jail.
Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son, teacher Scott Beigel, was murdered by Cruz, said she hopes Cruz "has the fear in him every second of his life just the way he gave that fear to every one of our loved ones whom he murdered, or the students and people that he harmed." The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that, ahead of Cruz's formal sentencing and transfer to prison, the sheriff's office filed a motion in court seeking to recover $250,000 — the maximum amount they are entitled to under Florida law. The state attorney's office asked for law enforcement to interview the unnamed juror after she told the state attorney’s office about what "she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room."
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