Parkland school shooter to get life sentence for killing 17 – WABE
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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 were proven beyond a reasonable doubt outweigh the mitigating circumstances established as to count two...