A Florida jury has recommended a sentence of life in prison for gunman Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 people at a Parkland school in 2018. Families of the victims in the courtroom sobbed and comforted each other after the jury’s decision was announced.
Following three months of testimony and lawyers' arguments, 12 jurors reached their recommendation after seven hours of deliberations over two days.In Florida, a death sentence could only have been handed down if jurors had unanimously recommended Cruz be executed.Cruz had said he chose Valentine's Day to make it impossible for Stoneman Douglas students to celebrate the holiday ever again.
Cruz had apologised for his crimes and asked to be given a life sentence without the possibility of parole in order to dedicate his life to helping others.The sentencing proceedings included testimony from survivors of the shooting as well as mobile phone footage of students crying out for help or whispering as they hid during the attack.
Their experts said his troubling and sometimes violent behaviour, which started at the age of two, was misdiagnosed as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, meaning he never got the right treatment.Mr Satz and his team contended Cruz did not suffer from foetal alcohol damage but had anti-social personality disorder.
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