Parkland Florida school shooting gunman gets 34 life sentences

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Linda Beigel Schulman displays a composite photo of the 17 murdered students and staff as she gave her victim impact statement on Wednesday. Her son, Scott Beigel, was killed in the 2018 mass shooting.

 

The gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was addressed directly by the families of his victims for the first time

 

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Brimming with rage, disappointment and grief, relatives of the 17 people fatally shot at a Florida high school four years ago confronted the gunman at a charged two-day sentencing hearing in which they repeatedly denounced the criminal justice system for sparing his life.

 

For the first time since the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., parents, siblings and children of the victims spoke directly to Nikolas Cruz, the 24-year-old gunman.

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On Wednesday, Judge Elizabeth A. Scherer sentenced Mr. Cruz to 34 consecutive life terms in prison, one for each of the 17 people he killed and the 17 people he injured.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/parkland-shooting-sentencing.html

 

 

 

[JeffersLos]

He won't last long in Gen Pop. 

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Background October 7, 2022 report:

 

 

School shooter chose Valentine’s Day to ruin it forever

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz calmly told a psychologist why he picked Valentine’s Day to massacre 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago: Because no one loved him, he wanted to ruin the holiday forever for anyone associated with the school.

 

Prosecutors concluded their rebuttal case Thursday after playing that video clip from jailhouse interviews Cruz did with their psychologist hoping it bolsters their contention that he wasn’t driven to kill by a mental disorder he couldn’t control, but planned his attack and chose to carry it out.

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Cruz’s attorneys have contended throughout the trial that his birth mother’s heavy drinking during pregnancy left him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, causing brain dysfunctions that led to lifelong episodes of bizarre, erratic and sometimes violent conduct that culminated with the shootings.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/shootings-education-florida-fort-lauderdale-parkland-school-shooting-045455fc875b7a91800468995c18dcf5

 

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[vandeventer]

34 life sentences? won't 1 real one be enough???

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10 hours ago, vandeventer said:

34 life sentences? won't 1 real one be enough???

Not really.  If he gets life for one of the killings, and he appeals and manages to win, then there is a problem.  As it stands, he would have to appeal all of them, and it's not likely he would be successful.