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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 monster that killed them gets to live another day,” said Tony Montalto, whose daughter, Gina, was among the 17 people murdered in a Florida high school. The jury foreman said three jurors had voted against the death penalty.
The sentence capped an emotional three-month trial in which victim relatives and survivors recounted the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre in painful detail.
Four years after the Hoyers lost their youngest child in the Florida school shooting, a jury will decide whether the killer should get the death penalty. The Hoyers had to decide, too.
The sounds of gunfire and children screaming filled the courtroom. Jurors will decide whether the man who killed 17 people in 2018 will be sentenced to death.
From Indiana to Texas to Florida and many other places, communities, families and individuals are coping today with the aftermath of violence that remains all too routine amid the continuing epidemic of shootings and gun-related deaths in America. Amna Nawaz reports on the latest gun violence.