MADRID, Spain.- Nikolas Cruz, confessed author of the massacre at a high school in Parkland, south Florida, in 2018, he was formally sentenced this Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole; after a Florida jury failed to reach a unanimous agreement last October to recommend the death penalty.
State Magistrate Elizabeth Scherer read on November 2 the 34 consecutive sentences imposed for each of the deceased and injured.
“I am ordering each and every charge to be made consecutively… That is one after another,” Scherer said, as reported by CNN. Just as he referred Cruz to the Florida Department of Corrections and informed her that she has 30 days to appeal the sentence.
The judge told the families of the victims that their personal stories “would not be forgotten.”
“This Wednesday was the second day of testimonies of emotional impact on the victims, after a previous round on Tuesday, when many relatives of the victims and some of the survivors of the shooting confronted Cruz,” he said. CNN.
Annika Dworet, the mother of 17-year-old victim Nicholas Dworet, said it was “heartbreaking” that the death penalty had not been sought after seeing and hearing all about the crimes.
Nikolas Cruz, who is currently 24 years old, was charged in March 2018 with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 of attempted murder, for the 17 dead and as many wounded left by his attack on February 14 at the high school Marjory Stoneman Douglas of Parkland.
Cruz was a former student of that Florida high school, and had been expelled for disciplinary reasons.
The fatalities were Jamie Guttenberg, 17 years old; Alyssa Alhadeff, 15 years old; Nicholas Dworet, 18 years old; Meadow Pollack, 18 years old; Cara Loughran, 14 years old; Gina Montalto, 14 years old; Joaquin Oliver, 17 years old; Martin Duke, 14 years old; Luke Hoyer, 15 years old; Alaina Petty, 14 years old; Carmen Schentrup, 16 years old; Alex Schachter, 14 years old; Peter Wang, 15 years old; Helena Pamsey, 17 years old; Scott Beigel, 35 years old; Aaron Feis, 37 years old; Chris Hixon, 49 years old.
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