Jurors on Thursday returned with a sentencing recommendation in the penalty phase of the trial against Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people and injured 17 others in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Wednesday after hearing several weeks of testimony in the penalty phase of Cruz’s trial. The 24-year-old pleaded guilty last year to 17 counts each of attempted and first-degree murder in the Parkland high school shooting.Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer set Cruz’s next sentencing hearing for Nov. 1 to allow for victims to make statements in court.
The panel unanimously found that Cruz “knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons,” and that the killings were “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel,” and “committed in a cold, calculated and premediated manner,” among other factors.Jurors declined to sentence Cruz to death Thursday with at least one finding that “one or more mitigating factors was established by the greater weight of the evidence.
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