After a nearly three-month trial and more than four years after the Parkland, Florida shooting, jurors voted to spare Nikolas Cruz’s life in October.
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Anguished families of the 17 people slain by Nikolas Cruz told the Parkland school shooter he would “burn in hell” on day one of his two-day sentencing hearing Tuesday.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer will sentence him to life in prison this week. The jury’s decision to decline the death penalty was met with dismay and disgust by the victims’ family members after the verdict — and on Tuesday.
David Robinovitz, the grandfather of 14-year-old victim Alyssa Alhadeff, referred to Cruz only as “Parkland murderer” in court Tuesday. When the gunman dies, Robinovitz said, he hoped Cruz’s ashes would be thrown into a landfill. “You know why?” he asked. “Because garbage to garbage.”
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