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The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began on Monday, the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to go before a jury. Jurors must decide whether he gets death or life without parole.
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Lawyers chose the 12 people who will decide if the Parkland school shooter spends the rest of his life in prison or gets the death penalty. Jury selection lasted over two months.
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How COVID has led to chaos in the courtroom during the confessed-Parkland shooter's trial. Plus, Florida’s paradox in regards to abortion. Why some red districts still want access. And a medical student searching for the medicines that will help us when we live in outer space.
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Jurors don’t often visit crime scenes but a Florida statute lets them if a judge says so.
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A non-profit battling antisemitism is trying something new — messaging through billboards. A look at the person behind the lens: the Sun Sentinel photographer who's covered the Parkland tragedy from the very beginning. Plus, add some romance this Valentine's Day with local tango classes.
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Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty last fall to 17 counts of first-degree murder, but that did not end the case — prosecutors still have to convince 12 jurors that his crime deserves the death penalty.
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The confessed Parkland shooter pleads guilty. State Senator Annette Taddeo announces her run for governor and a new exhibit looks at misinformation during the AIDS crisis in the '80s and COVID now.
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During an incredibly emotional Wednesday morning in court, victims' families watched as the confessed Parkland shooter changed his plea in the capital case to "guilty" of all 34 charges. His trial will now move straight to the penalty phase.
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The gunman's defense team is hoping to avoid the death penalty that prosecutors are seeking for the murders of 17 students and staff in Parkland, Fla.
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Nikolas Cruz's legal team will focus on the trial's penalty phase, where they hope to secure 17 consecutive life sentences instead of the death penalty for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school deaths.
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The confessed gunman of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is expected to plead guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
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Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, and family members of victims, joined Wednesday with half a dozen members of Congress from South Florida, Georgia and Colorado to mourn the victims of the nation’s two most recent mass shootings — and renew their push for gun safety legislation.