Madrid Spain.- Nicholas Cruz, confessed author of the Parkland massacre in 2018, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The jury’s recommendation came after seven hours of deliberations over two days, ending a three-month trial that included graphic videos, photographs and testimonies of the massacre and its aftermath, harrowing testimony from the families of the victims, reported the AP agency.
The twelve members of the jury listened to the arguments of the defense and the prosecution to determine whether Nikolas Cruz should receive the death penalty or life imprisonment.
Although the prosecution had argued that Cruz’s decision to carry out the shooting, in addition to being especially heinous or cruel, was premeditated and calculated and was not, as the defense argued, related to any neurological or intellectual deficit, according to Florida, for the death penalty the jury’s recommendation had to be unanimous.
Cruz, 24, was charged in March 2018 with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, for the 17 dead and as many wounded from his attack on February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. .
Nikolas Cruz was a former student of that Florida high school, and had been expelled for disciplinary reasons.
The victims 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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