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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."