The Latest Breaking News from Nikolas Cruz

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With his fate sealed and his life spared, the gunman who took 17 lives stepped into a Broward courtroom Tuesday morning to face return fire.

The families of 17 people shot dead and 17 left wounded in Parkland, Florida, are standing up in court and addressing former Stoneman Douglas High School student Nikolas Cruz

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — He will be a number.

“That needs to be the end of the applause," moderator said.

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MIAMI — Had Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz been sent to Florida’s Death Row, his daily life while awaiting execution would not have been easy. But he would have enjoyed certain comforts: his own cell, meals delivered three times a day, clean clothes and towels brought to him, and no…

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.

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.

The crucial question at the Parkland killer’s sentencing trial wasn’t expressed in so many words on the elaborate verdict forms that took more than an hour to read in court Thursday.