The process can take several months and is unusual as it is rare for shooters to survive the attack.
You United States began prosecuting this Monday, 18, the author of a school massacre that left 17 people dead in 2018. The trial of Nikolas Cruz is being held in Florida to define his sentence: death penalty or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole . The Marjory Stoneman School Attack it was one of the worst attacks in the US. The shooting shocked the entire country and especially the south of Floridawhere it took almost three months to select 12 jurors – seven men and five women – considered impartial enough to decide the fate of the self-confessed perpetrator of the massacre.
The trial will determine whether Cruz deserves to be sentenced to death, a decision the jury must reach unanimously. Under Florida law, if a single juror rejects capital punishment, the juvenile’s sentence will be life in prison without parole. The process, which can take several months, is unusual for the United States, where it is rare for the perpetrators of such a massacre to survive the attack. The hearings should be moving, with testimonies from family members and survivors, as well as the dissemination of videos recorded by witnesses to the tragedy.
remember the case
On February 14, 2018, Cruz sowed panic in Parkland, a small town north of Miami, by entering Marjory Stoneman High School, from which he had been expelled a year earlier, with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. In a video Cruz recorded before the massacre, he is shown saying, “I’m going to be the next school shooter in 2018,” he said in the recording. “I am nobody, my life is nothing and it has no meaning,” he added. Within minutes, he killed 14 students and three adults and injured 17. In October, he pleaded guilty to all 17 murders committed that day, as well as 17 attempts, one for each wounded. “I’m sorry for what I did and I have to live with it every day,” Cruz said in October after pleading guilty.
*With information from AFP
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