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A Florida jury on Thursday (Oct 13) decided to spare Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who killed 17 people in 2018 at a high school in the city of Parkland, from the death penalty, instead calling for life in prison without possibility of parole. Some family members of victims shook their heads in the Fort Lauderdale courtroom as the jury rejected...

Nikolas Cruz, the Florida mass shooter who shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and killed 17 people was spared the death penalty.

Thursday's decision was 'yet another gut punch,' fumed Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter Gina was killed in the massacre.

"What do we have the death penalty for?" one Parkland parent questioned after the jury could not unanimously agree on a death sentence for shooter Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people.

"This animal deserves to die."

A Florida jury's decision left relatives angry and upset - but was a result of the state's death penalty law.

The Parkland school shooter has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School -- a move that left some of the victims' loved ones disappointed and angry.

Prosecutors have asked to allow law enforcement to interview a juror who claims she felt threatened by another juror during deliberations.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations that ended Thursday with a life sentence for Cruz's murder of 17 people.

Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people in the 2018 Marjory Stonemen Douglas High School shooting, is facing life in prison after the recommendation of a jury was released on Thursday. Cruz is responsible for the deadliest high school shooting in Un...