Jury recommends Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz get life in prison, not death penalty

Jury recommends Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz get life in prison, not death penalty
Nikolas Cruz carried out massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day 2018
A Broward County, Florida jury recommended Wednesday that Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz should get life in prison but not the death penalty in the deaths of 17 people.

The jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a recommendation for the death penalty on all counts.

Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer set sentencing for Nov. 1, when victim impact statements will be delivered.

The verdict came in the second day of deliberations, 15 minutes after jurors arrived and examined the gun Cruz used.

Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to the murders of 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 – a date that he said he picked so the school would never celebrate Valentine's Day again.

Cruz fired volleys from an AR-15-style semi-automatic down hallways and into classrooms for about seven minutes, returning to those who lay wounded to kill them.

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