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Parents, wives, children, and siblings of the 17 people murdered by Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their final chance to verbally thrash him face-to-face Wednesday before he was sentenced to life behind bars.

One of the 12 jurors in the Parkland school shooting sentencing trial said a fellow juror was adamant about giving the gunman a life sentence from the moment deliberations began.

Family members of the victims of the Parkland school shooter expressed their disappointment over the jury’s decision Thursday to give him life behind bars instead of a death sentence.

More than four-and-a-half years after 17 people were killed and 17 others were wounded in the Parkland school shooting, a jury has determined that the man responsible should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The jury in the sentencing trial of Parkland school gunman Nikolas Cruz will begin deliberations Wednesday, nearly six months after the proceedings began.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz may have talked himself into a death sentence.

The judge in the Parkland school shooting sentencing trial has denied a motion by the gunman’s defense attorneys to remove herself from the case.

NBC 6 investigator Tony Pipitone has more on the explosive exchange between lawyers of Nikolas Cruz and Judge Elizabeth Scherer.

The defense team abruptly rested its case in the Parkland school shooter sentencing trial Wednesday, triggering an outburst from Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer. “We’re not playing chess,” she said. “I just want to say this is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try the case.” As soon as the jury was about to enter the courtroom Wednesday...

A clinical neuro-psychologist’s study of the effects of alcohol on fetal mice is the defense team’s latest attempt to secure a life sentence for the Parkland school shooter. Dr. Paul Connor testified via a remote video link Monday that using any substance during pregnancy can impact the fetus. “We do know nicotine, cocaine, heroin, all of those can have...

The former director of a pre-kindergarten school was the fourth witness called in the second day of the defense attempt to show that the Parkland school shooter had developmental problems since he was born to a drug-addicted mother in 1998.

A dozen Broward jurors and 10 alternates got a preview Monday of what’s to come in the defense of convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. For nearly 90 minutes, lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill’s opening statement focused on his life story and all those who failed him. She paraphrased an Irish poet who said the beginning holds the clues to…

Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are about to present their case for why they believe he should be sentenced to life in prison and not death.

Roses that had been brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered, their dried and cracked petals scattered across classroom floors still smeared with the blood of victims gunned down by a former student more than four years earlier. Bullet holes pocked walls and shards of glass from windows shattered by gunfire crunched eerily underfoot at…

Video shows Nikolas Cruz in Subway, McDonald’s shortly after murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.