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The three-month trial included horrific prosecution videos, photos and testimony about Cruz's murders. That left it up to the seven-man, five-woman jury to only decide whether he would be sentenced to death or life without parole. "We need to do some reforms to be better serving victims of crimes and the families of victims of crimes and not always bend over backwards to do everything we need to for the perpetrators of crimes," DeSantis said.Ĭruz, 24, pleaded guilty a year ago to the murder of 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members on Feb. That would again put Florida in a distinct minority among the 27 states that still have the death penalty where almost all require juror unanimity.
Now, however, a vote of anything less than 12-0 means an automatic sentence of life without parole - a standard the Stoneman Douglas families and the head of the state's prosecutors association want changed. With a 9-3 vote Thursday supporting Cruz's execution, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer would have likely sent him to Death Row for the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. Until 2016, Florida law allowed trial judges to impose a death sentence if a majority of the jurors agreed. It wasn't long ago that Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz would have been looking at a near-certain death sentence for murdering 17 people in Parkland, even if his jury could not unanimously agree on his fate. 14, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.įORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is escorted into the courtroom for a hearing regarding possible jury misconduct during deliberations in the penalty phase of his trial on Oct.
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