Jury to decide on death penalty or life in prison for gunman who pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people in 2018
A prosecutor on Monday urged jurors to sentence to death the gunman who killed 17 people in a mass shooting at a Florida high school in 2018.
of 14 students and three staff members there on 14 February 2018, and is now only contesting his sentence.Lead prosecutor Mike Satz had been expected to highlight Cruz’s brutality as he stalked a three-storey classroom building, firing his AR-15 semi-automatic rifle down hallways and into classrooms.On Monday afternoon, Satz told the Broward county jurors that Cruz committed “goal-directed, planned, systematic murder – mass murder – of 14 students, an athletic director, a teacher and a coach”.
Dressed in a gray-and-black sweater and wearing a black face mask to limit the spread of coronavirus, Cruz slumped in his seat, looking down, for much of Satz’s statement. He appeared to write several notes and pass them to his lawyer.
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