Ex-deputy Scot Peterson had been charged with failing to confront shooter Nikolas Cruz, who terrorized Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018, leaving 17 dead.
In the second day of victim impact statements, families of students and teachers killed by Nikolas Cruz at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 continued to openly wish for him to meet a violent end.
Before Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz can be officially sentenced to life in prison, victims and family members of victims had the chance to front him — and, with the judge's permission, his lawyers — in court.
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz, who narrowly avoided being sentenced to death for killing 17 people, is not expected to speak at the two-day hearing that will mark the formal end of the sentencing process.
A motion was filed by prosecutors to force law enforcement to investigation one Nikolas Cruz death penalty phase juror who said she voted for the controversial life sentence but felt threatened in the jury room.
Jurors unanimously decided after weeks of testimony that Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, should receive a sentence of life in prison.
Prosecutors showed the jury at the penalty trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz a video of the defendant explaining how he was trying to ruin Valentine's Day for students in perpetuity.
Prosecutors presented evidence that Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's supposed symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome were incompatible with the speed at which he committed the massacre.
The prosecution used witness testimony about Nikolas Cruz's racist and sexist behavior before the Parkland school shooting to argue he is a sociopath, not suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome.
Lawyers for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz demanded that the judge overseeing his sentencing step down over bias allegations, which would cause an automatic mistrial. The judge refused.
Lawyers trying to help Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz avoid the death penalty suddenly rested their case on Wednesday, choosing not to call dozens of witnesses.
Defense lawyers representing Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz presented evidence of his violent tendencies and years-long fantasies about committing acts of violence against others.
Lawyers representing Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz presented evidence during his death penalty trial that his biological mother abused alcohol and crack while pregnant with him, causing permanent brain damage.
The death penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, who pleaded guilty to the murders of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, is the rare case where the public has seen the reality of a mass shooting.
A jury has been seated to decide whether Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be given the death penalty or sentenced to life in prison for the 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people.
The judge in the death penalty phase for convicted Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz had to dismiss a panel of 70 potential jurors after one began mouthing something at the defendant and others became "excited."
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer nullified two weeks of jury selection work over errors she had made in asking some potential jurors questions and not others.
The prosecutor and defense in the Nikolas Cruz case are protesting the judge's plans to finish jury selection in the death penalty phase of Nikolas Cruz's trial.