Jury selection for Parkland, Florida, school shooter Nikolas Cruz is about to begin after four years of legal maneuvering and delays. Cruz, 23, has pleaded guilty to the murders. The jury will decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole.
Jury candidates who declare that they can be objective will complete a questionnaire that dives into their backgrounds and asks whether they can handle viewing graphic evidence. They will then return in a few weeks for courtroom interviews, where they must declare that they are able to vote for the death penalty but also don’t believe it should be mandatory for murder.
Catholic Church leaders, some Protestant denominations and Judaism’s major rabbinical organizations also oppose the death penalty on theological grounds, although many individual members support it in practice.This won’t be the first time Scherer, prosecutors and Cruz’s attorneys begin picking a jury for him. In October, Cruz faced trial for assaulting a jail guard nine months after the shooting.
Both sides receive 10 peremptory strikes for any reason except race or gender. Scherer has indicated she might add more, given the case’s high profile.
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