The Parkland death penalty trial was the first of its kind for a mass shooter. It won’t be the last
Jurors failed to unanimously agree that the aggravating factors in the case, including Cruz’s pre-planning of the shooting, outweighed these mitigating factors.
More trials over mass shootings are set to follow. The man accused of killing 23 people in 2019 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, has pleaded not guilty and is still awaiting trial. State prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty in the case, but thewhile a Texas judge waits to see whether federal prosecutors will also seek capital punishment over the gunman’s federal charges, including hate crimes.
He had thought the odds in this trial favored the defense. “The prosecution has to win every juror on every count, whereas the defense only has to find that one juror who has any doubts,” Jarvis says.Cruz giving an interview to their mental health experts Some spoke out directly against the death penalty. “Killing the MSD shooter will not bring anyone back to life,” Cameron Kasky, a Stoneman Douglas student who survived the shooting, said in ain July. “It will not stop the next school shooter. It will bring our community neither justice nor peace.”
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