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Commentary: Parkland and the flawed argument against capital punishment

Jurors recently handed down their decision in the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz, the man who murdered 17 people, mostly children, in the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018 in Parkland, Florida. They opted against the death penalty, choosing instead to give Cruz life in prison without parole.

Chicago Tribune

The Parkland shooter's life sentence could bring changes to Florida law

Until 2016, Florida law allowed trial judges to impose a death sentence if a majority of the jurors agreed. But now, anything less than 12-0 means an automatic sentence of life without parole.

WEKU

Fabiola Santiago: No justice: Florida jury gives a gun-obsessed monster what he took from innocents — life

He killed 17 and injured 17 more.

Miami Herald

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Parkland shooter's life sentence could bring changes to law

The life sentence about to be imposed on Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz could bring changes to the state's death penalty law

The Independent UK

Biden nominates 7 for US attorney, judge and marshal slots

The Biden administrating is putting forth seven new Justice Department and judicial nominations covering three U.S. attorney’s offices in Texas and other senior posts

The Independent UK

British mother of girl killed in Parkland school massacre condemns verdict as gunman spared death penalty

Anne Ramsay, whose 17-year-old daughter was among victims of killer Nikolas Cruz, does not believe justice was done

The Independent UK

After Parkland shooter gets life verdict, what’s next for the death penalty in Florida?

MIAMI — A jury’s decision to hand out a life sentence for Parkland mass killer Nikolas Cruz will make it even more difficult to secure death sentences in the future — and could also spur Florida lawmakers to consider changing the state’s capital punishment law, legal experts say.

Miami Herald

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Jury rejects death sentence for Parkland school shooter in all 17 murders

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County jury showed mercy Thursday to a heartless killer who didn’t know the meaning of the word as he stalked the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago, viciously ending the lives of 17 innocent people.

Tribune News Service

Juror who prevented Nikolas Cruz getting death penalty defends herself

Cruz will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole for killing 17 and injuring 17

The Independent UK

‘They did not receive justice today’: Families stunned, angered, disgusted by jury's decision to spare life of Parkland gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been 1,702 days since they last looked into the eyes of their child, their spouse, but the families of 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 finally got their moment of reckoning.

Tribune News Service

White House says Parkland verdict ‘brought a measure of justice and accountability’

A Florida jury’s decision to recommend life in prison for the shooter who killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drew strong reaction from the families who lost sons, daughters and spouses in the attack, many of whom were outraged that the jury rejected the death…

Miami Herald

‘Robbed of Justice’: Families shocked as mass shooter avoids death penalty

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended life without the possibility of parole.

The New Daily

The Loop: January 6 committee votes to subpoena Donald Trump for testimony, Parkland shooter spared death penalty for murder — as it happened

What Australia is searching for and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up of this morning's key stories.

ABC News

Families’ anger as Parkland school shooter avoids death penalty

Families of victims from the Parkland high school shooting have expressed their frustration after the gunman Nikolas Cruz was spared the death penalty.

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Al Jazeera

Florida jury recommends Parkland shooter serve life in prison

Jury says Nicolas Cruz should not get the death penalty for the murder of 17 students and staff at US high school.

The Independent UK

Nikolas Cruz verdict came down to single juror who voted against death penalty, Parkland victim’s father says

Survivors and relatives of the 17 Parkland victims shook their heads as the verdict was read out

The Independent UK

Parkland victim’s son storms out of court as Nikolas Cruz avoids death penalty

The man’s father was athletic director Chris Hixon, 49, who was killed as he tried to stop the shooting

Salon

Parkland jury rejects death penalty

"At least one juror, and all it took was one, was persuaded by the defense plea for mercy"

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The Independent UK

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz avoids death penalty and is sentenced to life

Survivors and relatives of the 17 Parkland victims shook their heads as the verdict was read out

Axios

Jury recommends life without parole for Parkland shooter

The death penalty was on the table, but the jury would've had to reach that decision unanimously.

Tribune News Service

Tampa prosecutors seek death penalty in 1983 murders

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two men accused in a pair of 1983 murders, one of which resulted in another man’s wrongful conviction and imprisonment for 37 years.

Texas Observer

Despite Racist Jurors, Andre Thomas Remains on Texas’ Death Row

The convicted man’s lawyer called the prospect of his execution “an ugly spectacle.”

Manchester Evening News

How did Jeffrey Dahmer die? Was the serial killer given the death penalty?

The serial killer murdered 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991

AAP

Australian troops could be killed in Japan

Australian soldiers could potentially be exposed to the death penalty under a military deal with Japan.

Miami Herald

As Parkland trial ends, defense urges jury to spare Nikolas Cruz the death penalty

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A defense lawyer on Tuesday urged jurors to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school, saying he was “doomed from the womb” because his birth mother drank heavily and smoked crack cocaine…

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