Parkland shooter jailed for life, confronted by victims’ relatives

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is escorted from the courtroom after his sentencing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on November 2, 2022. AFPPIX: The gunman who murdered 17 people in a 2018 high school rampage was formally sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in a Florida court, where he was verbally confronted by furious parents.

Family members wept and held hands as Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer read out the 17 sentences of first-degree murder, saying after each victim’s name that “the court imposes a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.”The failure to mete out the death penalty shocked and angered several of the victims' relatives last month.

“My hope for you is that the pain of what you did to my family burns and traumatizes you every day,“ said Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter Alyssa was killed, in comments reported by National Public Radio. During the trial, relatives and survivors were not allowed to speak directly to Cruz. On Tuesday and Wednesday, they called him a monster and a “murdering bastard” who deserved to “burn in hell,“ according to NPR.

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