Before the jury’s deliberation began Wednesday morning, Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer read instructions to set the parameters of their decision on the punishment that Nikolas Cruz should face for the 17 murders during the 2018 Valentine’s Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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To be honest I didn't know in was a black child Cruz murder also cause it was always white kids and faculty the media was focus on from day one
If he was black he would’ve been dead at the scene
I'd love to know what nc is writing or drawing..I'm sure its nothing good.
For what purpose do the jury members want the see the weapon? The murder weapon has no bearing on his murderous rampage.
Saw a comment yesterday. Someone was asking why so many Australians were watching. Is there nothing happening in their own country that is of interest?
I believe that the world is interested in this case. Watching from South Africa where we do have plenty of problems of our own.
Audio guys, c'mon.
So you kill this kid. It doesn’t solve anything. It’s probably merciful for Cruz. Life without parole. Just imagine being one week in an American prison. The rest of your life. OK. The root of the problem is mental health and guns and rifles that are available and accessible as candy. And addicted women who drink and use meth during their pregnancy! Whatever the fate of this kid will be, it doesn’t make me feel any better. This young man was poisoned by his mother. She created a ticking time-bomb. Nobody wins.
How stupid, police officers know how to make the weapon safe, remove the trigger springs, remove the firing pin, put a barrel plug in.
nick Cruz for President. Debt bomb is about to blow.
I have a feeling this is going to be a quick verdict. I hope so anyway.
I don't think Nicholas Cruise should be executed his mother messed up his brain
For everyone that doesn’t understand Florida’s laws for life in prison mean you do not get parole. So I don’t understand why this is being dragged out because either sentence they hand out is going to equal a death sentence. The judge made that clear if you have been following this trial during the first phase when he pled guilty to all 37 counts She told him before the start of this which is the penalty phase in Florida life in prison means that you will never be eligible for parole you will die in prison and the death penalty means you die in prison there is no difference in Florida between the two so why is this taking so long and wasting taxpayer money? Why is everyone debating the cost of life versus the death penalty because it doesn’t matter in Florida it may be relevant in other states but in this case it’s a irrelevant argument.
In Florida life in prison is a death sentence there’s no possibility for parole a death sentence is a death sentence they’re equal so I’m confused why the penalty phase this is taking so long and they’re dragging it out is absolutely stupid because either outcome is going to equal the same thing death.
Why can’t they just put a gun lock on the gun and let them see it ! The sheriff office should have had that in place ! How was it secured when it the gun was in the court room!
God help this case.
So sorry for this young man
LIFE
For what reason??
Please give me a break, Nikolas Cruz looks put out by this really!!!! the only other place you have to go is a jail cell!!!!!
He is truly disgusting
Have the same compassion for him as he had for his victims another words fry the m*********
Those news anchors just blab away, saying nothing but trite cliches and obvious observations just so they can keep their jobs.
I was on a murder trial jury and they instructed us to go through all the facts and make sure everyone understood everything before we started talking about a verdict. Ours was a stabbing case, and we did have the knife. Maybe the jury is trying to understand the details of what happened during the shooting, and it may not have an immediate effect on the verdict.
Personally if I was to lose my child this way, then I would not want him punished by an easy death, I want him in prison where he is taken out by other prisoners
Nikolas Cruz is being led away by black people and surrounded by black people, all day, every day…
Trick baby needs to get the needle 💉
Death is too easy. I want him kept in a small cell with no windows, no tv, no music, no books, no visitors, no contact with other inmates, just 4 walls covered in photos of his victims and their families. Coarse muslin sheets and a My Pillow with a blood red pillow case. For food, old fashion tin tray TV dinners. He gets to be a living dead person for the rest of his life.
omg he is laughing and talking up a storm with his team SICKENING to watch him act like he just doesnt give a crap about what he did. What is that monster saying to the ladies omg for real. THe support that these families are giving each other says VOLUMES TO WHO IS BEING SUPPORTED IN THIS AND SENDS A MESSAGE TO CRUZ NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOU ON THE OUTSIDE You may have your bro and his friends but you will never get to experience the love and support that these childrens families are getting.. No one likes you because of what you did.. That speaks volumes to him as well. I have no sympathy for him because lots of other people are like him but hAVE NEVER KILLED OR HURT ANYONE. So no matter the disorder they say he has nothing makes it right for him to do what he did to these kids and their families. If they give him LWOP at least the families will never have to hear from him or his attorneys again he will be put in prison and locked away and he will never be allowed an opportunity to take another persons life.. I still fear for the Prison guards etc safety since he has already proved that he will take anyone out that he feels he needs to… If he gets the DP there will be appeals and the familes will be dragged right back into court to be tortured over and over again and reliving the trauma. and possibly get another trial which would be horrible. So i am mixed on what should happen to him… I am just glad i am not on the jury to decide… Any killing he did would be horrific but the sheer amount of people he did kill gains him less sympathy.. He shot some of them over and over again.
holding the gun and firing a gun is different. when fired you need an extreme amount of force to hold it still. not sure how they need to see it to make a decision. a demo is better.
The life of Nikolas Cruz is NOT in the hands of the jury; it was in his own hands. He IS GUILTY of 17 PREMEDITATED Murders. No jury member should ever feel guilty of sentencing him to death. Jurors are just there to hear the facts. Cruz has already confessed; The death penalty is the only sentence to be rendered.
I think Nicholas will be lucky to get the death penalty. In general population in prison I think he wi?l get killed
omg the families must be broken inside to watch this killer in court cheat chatting. I would have been escorted out so many times.
Death penalty
Death penalty justice
Prayers with all sides on this phase of juror deliberations – prayers with the jurors to reach the decision only they can make at this point carefully taking the time they need and the process they are in. The waiting is the hardest for the families. My heartfelt empathy with them all. No verdict takes away what they have lost and been thru. They are supported by total strangers whose lives will be forever changed by what brought this shooter to Feb 14, 2018. The failed system needs to take it’s responsibility for missing the root cause of the shooters life from birth to 5 entering school to their years of not recognizing they missed this shooter and helped to create the monster he was on Feb. 14. No one can feel good about this.
I can't believe that the sheriff's office wasn't prepared… again?
A slow-death penalty.
What do they need to see the gun for the man already admitted to doing the crime he should already be in the ground
Is this the first time a jury has asked to see a gun?
Whatever the outcome, I'm more than impressed with the prosecution as well as the judge. They've all been extremely professional and courteous. Can't really say the same for the defense, but hey.
This should have been figured out long ago
This is absurd
Haven't they seen enough?? Why do they need to see the weapon to make a decision. They guy had no mercy on anyone.
Screw AR -15s
I hope and I am sure that god will show no mercy to Nicolas. He is evil and doesnt deserve forgiveness.
12 JURORS if it was YOUR CHILDREN you would NOT HESITATE to give him Death SHAME bon YOUUU ❗❗❗❗❗❗