Florida lawmakers seek to make it easier for juries to impose death penaltyAfter a jury couldn’t agree on the death penalty in the Parkland school shooting, Republican lawmakers in Tallahassee are proposing to make it easier to send condemned convicts to death row.
Parkland school shooting verdict: Count 5 in penalty phase is Alaina PettyBroward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count five of first-degree murder.
Defense attorney for Parkland school shooter dabs eyes as victims’ loved ones testifyOne of the Parkland school shooter’s defense attorneys dabbed her eyes Monday as jurors heard from family members of the victims killed in the February 2018 shooting.
‘Heartbroken’: Parkland school shooting victims’ loved ones testify during penalty phaseThe jury viewed photos of three of the victims of the Feb. 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland during Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial on Monday in Fort Lauderdale.