Watch LIVE: Today, Parkland School shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison, not the death penalty. First though, the families of his 17 victims will continue to have their say on the matter.
FORT LAUDERDALE — A judge will formally sentence the Parkland school shooter to life in prison without parole at the conclusion of his sentencing hearing Wednesday.emotional testimony and tense confrontations
reminiscent of the nearly three-month trial that preceded it. Jurors voted to spare Nikolas Cruz's life in October, more than four years after he killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. While jurors found that the aggravating factors like Cruz's cold and calculated behavior were sufficient to warrant a possible death penalty, at least one believed they were outweighed by mitigating circumstances, like Cruz's plight with mental illness.
Their decision was met with dismay and disgust by the victims' family members, the last of whom are expected to speak Wednesday before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer passes the sentence.
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