Entries tagged with “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School”
Issues
Oct 13, 2022
Non-Unanimous Florida Jury Sentences Nikolas Cruz to Life Without Parole for Parkland School Shootings
A non-unanimous Florida jury has returned a verdict of life without parole for Nikolas Cruz, the teen offender convicted of killing 17 people in the February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (pictured) in Parkland, Florida. The October 13, 2022 verdict, in which three jurors voted to spare Cruz’s life, concluded a six-month sentencing trial. Florida law, like that of nearly every death-penalty state, requires a unanimous jury verdict before a death sentence may be…
Issues
May 04, 2022
Jury Selection Chaos and Confusion Causes Further Delays in Parkland Shooting Capital Sentencing Trial
The capital sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (pictured) in Parkland, Florida has been delayed once again as jury selection in the high-profile case devolved into chaos and confusion. The fourth week of jury selection in Cruz’s penalty trial was postponed after Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer granted a prosecution motion to restart jury selection based upon the improper removal of 11 jurors from the case, then later…
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Victims' Families
,Dec 19, 2019
As Court Postpones Start of Parkland Mass-Shooting Trial, a Victim’s Father Says Prosecutors Should Drop the Death Penalty
As the capital punishment trial of accused Parkland, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was postponed until at least the summer of 2020, the father of one of the victims of the attack has urged the prosecution to end the case now by dropping the death penalty. Michael Schulman’s son, Scott Beigel, was the track coach and a geography teacher at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (pictured). He was one of 14 students and three teachers killed in the February 14, 2018 mass shooting at the…