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Prosecutor Carolyn McCann said during a brief hearing that they are not trying to invalidate Thursday's jury vote.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty Thursday for killing 17 people at a Parkland hig

"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.

Thomas Benjamin told CBS Miami three jurors voted against the death penalty for the gunman, who was convicted of killing 17 people in 2018.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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Anne Ramsay, whose 17-year-old daughter Helena was one of 17 people shot dead in the 2018 attack, said she felt let down by the jury at the conclusion of the mammoth three month trial on Thursday.

The jury foreman said three of the jurors ultimately voted for life in prison, with one of them being a "hard no" on the death penalty and another two ultimately choosing to vote against it as well.

"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.

Calculated and pre-meditated manner without any pretense of moral or legal justification, yes. reviewing the aggravating factors that we found to be established beyond a reasonable doubt, we the jury unanimously find the aggravating factors are sufficient to warrant a possible sentence of death, yes. one or more individual jurors find that one or more mitigating circumstances was established by the greater weight of the evidence, yes. we the jury unanimously find the aggravating factors that wer...