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Heres what we know: Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Floridas Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, has avoided the death penalty.

Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Floridas Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, has avoided the death penalty. A jury on Thursday recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, a decision which enraged many of the victims families who said Cruz being allowed to live is not justice served.

The stunning jury decision to spare the Parkland mass murderer’s life is still reverberating among the victims and throughout the legal community, especially...

One of the three jurors in the Parkland school massacre case who was against the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz told CNN Friday she did not make her decision until

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A divided jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz the death penalty Thursday for killing 17 people, including a Monroe County native, at a Parkland high school in 2018,...

Three jurors spared the life of convicted Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as they recommended life imprisonment without parole over the death penalty.

Gina Montaltos parents simply clutched hands and cried as it was announced Thursday that a Florida jury recommended the Parkland school shooter should not be condemned to death.

A juror wrote a note to Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer describing heated deliberations over the fate of Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland school shooter who faced the death penalty for killing 17.

Nikolas Cruz showed little emotion as the judge read the jury’s decisions one by one. His victims’ families, in contrast, were horrified and baffled as they learned that his life had been spared.

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.