WATCH NOW: A jury has reached a decision in the sentencing trial of the man who carried out the 2018 Parkland school shooting
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The jury began deliberating Wednesday, and its decision is expected to be announced in court at 10:30 a.m. ET.Cruz, now 24, pleaded guilty a year ago to murdering 14 students and three staff members and wounding 17 others. The jury is deciding between either life in prison or the death penalty. A decision on the death penalty would have to be unanimous by all 12 jurors, and then the judge would make the final ruling.
From left: Abby Hoyer, Tom and Gena Hoyer, and Michael Schulman react during the reading of jury instructions in the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Oct. 12, 2022. The Hoyer's son, Luke, and Schulman's son, Scott Beigel, were killed in the 2018 shooting.
Satz meticulously went through the murders, reminding the jurors how each victim died and how the gunman looked some in the eye before he shot them multiple times.As he had during the trial, Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed photos. He talked about the death of one 14-year-old girl. The gunman shot her and then went back to shoot her again, putting his gun against her chest.
She focused on her belief that heavy drinking by his birth mother, Brenda Woodard, during pregnancy left him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. She said that accounts for his bizarre, troubling and sometimes violent behavior starting at age 2.
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