The fate of confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz will soon be in the hands of the jurors who will determine if Cruz will be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison for carrying out the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
October 11, 2022, 4:01 PMLori Alhadeff cries as Assistant State Attorney Mike Satz details the killings in his closing arguments in the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 11, 2022.confessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz
As parents of the slain children looked on, prosecutor Michael Satz said Tuesday that the testimony and evidence presented at the trial revealed the "unspeakable, horrific brutality and the unrelentless cruelty" carried out on Feb. 14, 2018. Cruz fired 70 shots on Building 12's first floor, Satz said, and the barrage of bullets prompted students and teachers on the second floor to take cover.Ryan Petty hugs Annika Dworet, shown with her husband, Mitch Dworet, prior to closing arguments in the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Oct. 11, 2022.
Cruz's birth mother was a drug and alcohol addict who drank and used drugs up until six weeks before Cruz was born, McNeill said in her opening argument. Cruz was "poisoned in the womb" and his "brain was irretrievably broken," she said. MORE: Uvalde school district suspends entire police force, superintendent to retire amid fallout from shooting"What they have done is slapped on a label that says he only has a personality disorder... but that doesn't describe all of Nikolas' behavior," she said. "It's easier to call someone antisocial…than to accept what Nikolas Cruz really is: a broken, brain-damaged, mentally ill young man.
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