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Gov. DeSantis And Victims’ Families React To Parkland Shooter’s Life Sentence

By Jack CraneOctober 14, 2022No Comments
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Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz evaded the death penalty for the most deadly mass shooting ever tried in a United States courtroom, and families of the victims are outraged at the outcome.

Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to slaughtering 17 students and faculty members, and wounding an equal number of others at a Parkland, Florida high school on Valentine’s Day 2018.

A jury of five men and seven women did not come up with the required unanimous vote to sentence Cruz to death, after three-months being presented with graphic evidence of the violent tragedy during trial and two days of deliberation.

The Parkland shooter deserves to die.

Today.

— Kimberly Klacik (@kimKBaltimore) October 13, 2022

Despite prosecutors presenting evidence that the former Stoneman Douglas student spent eight months plotting out the massacre and deliberately selecting Valentine’s Day to ruin the holiday for future students, some jurors were swayed the public defender’s argument that fetal alcohol induced brain damage and a violent upbringing were mitigating factors.

Jury foreman Benjamin Thomas told CBS Miami that one juror believed Cruz was mentally ill and should not be sentenced to death.

Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, won't be getting the death penalty. #NikolasCruz

What type of MONSTER qualifies, if not him?

— ThatUmbrellaGuy (@ThatUmbrella) October 13, 2022

“There was one with a hard no — she couldn’t do it — and there was another two that ended up voting the same way,” he said.

Though he voted for the death penalty and was disappointed how the vote went, Thomas acknowledged that the outcome was “how the jury system works.”

“The wrong verdict was given out today.”
“We have been let down by the jury.” Anne Ramsay, Helena Ramsay’s mother, reacts to the jury’s decision to recommend life in prison for the #Parkland shooter. pic.twitter.com/XZwgENGwGb

— Kris Anderson (@KrisAndersonTV) October 13, 2022

“Everybody gets their vote — everybody gets to decide,” he concluded. “We went through all the evidence, and some of the jurors just felt that was the appropriate sentence.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was vocal about his displeasure with the verdict at a Thursday press conference.

He should die. Even Death is not enough. This is travesty of Justice. Mass shooters get to live but there victims don’t, fucking unacceptable. He should be removed from ever existing. The 17 can never return and neither should he. I always stand with the parkland families. https://t.co/i4jKedHwFS

— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) October 13, 2022

“If you have a death penalty at all, that is a case where your massacring those students with premeditation and udder disregard for basic humanity, that you deserve the death penalty,” he remarked.

“This killer is gonna end up getting [the] same sentence of people who have committed bad acts, but acts that did not rise to this level,” he continued. “I just don’t thing that anything else is appropriate except the capital sentence in this case.”

WATCH: @GovRonDeSantis slammed the life sentence recommendation for Parkland school shooter.

'You deserve the death penalty.' pic.twitter.com/YF3StNJMe1

— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) October 13, 2022

Families of the victims were outraged by the jury’s decision, with some leaving court in tears, while others lashed out to the press.

“I’m disgusted with the system,” said the father of Alyssa Alhadeff, 14, who accused the jury of setting a precedence for future mass shooters. “I pray that that animal suffers everyday of his life in jail, and he should have a short life.”

Her mother, Lori Alhadeff, said that families of the victims were “beyond disappointed” with the day’s outcome. “This should have been the death penalty 100%.”

Michael Schulman and his wife Linda — parents of Scott Beigel — say they are disappointed with the jury’s decision. He holds up this footage of the Parkland school shooter approaching his son and says “people need to see this… this was the last thing my son saw.” pic.twitter.com/azyidAICOW

— Emanuella Grinberg (@grinsli) October 13, 2022

The mother of geography teacher Scott Beigel told reporters she hopes Cruz has to look over his shoulder and has “fear in him every second of his life, just the way he gave that fear” to their loved ones.

“The first thing I do moving forward is I go visit my daughter at the cemetery because he killed her,” snapped the father of 14-year-old Jamie Guttenberg. “The next thing I do moving forward, is everything I can to prevent the next one of these from happening.”

"The first thing I do moving forward is I go visit my daughter at the cemetery … The next thing I do … is everything I can to prevent the next one of these."

— @fred_guttenberg, father of Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, after jury recommends life in prison for shooter pic.twitter.com/3ISf0m7smU

— The Recount (@therecount) October 13, 2022
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