Prosecutors in closing arguments at the trial for the Parkland gunman Tuesday described the “systematic massacre” he carried out when he killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018
It marked the end of the death-penalty trial, which lasted nearly three months and focused on devastating details of the school shooting and the gunman’s history of mental health issues.
During the trial, jurors heard emotional testimony from students and teachers, and they visited the school building to see classrooms stained with blood and marked by bullet holes, unchanged since the day of the shooting. Defense attorneys for Cruz focused on his childhood and mental-health history, arguing that his biological mother’s abuse of drugs and alcohol during pregnancy caused him to suffer from fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and that he struggled from a young age with behavioral issues that were never properly treated.
Victims’ family members, who had given heart-wrenching impact statements earlier in the trial, sat solemnly in the courtroom on Tuesday, while lawyers made their final case.
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