Prosecutors defend death penalty request for Parkland school shooter - La Prensa Latina Media

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : All 12 jurors must agree that the death penalty is warranted, but if all do not agree then Cruz will receive a sentence of life in prison, although Scherer will have the final say in the sentencing.
40% : But for some of the victims' family members, dozens of whom attended the court session, even the death penalty "would not be enough," as Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin Oliver, told local WPLG television, an ABC affiliate, on the weekend.
39% : The prosecutor said that this case has seven aggravating factors that justify the state's demand that Cruz receive the death penalty, calling these factors solid enough to overturn any defense argument that Cruz was mentally unstable or that his childhood experiences could be mitigating factors in the jury's determination of what sentence to impose.
38% : Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jul 18 (EFE).- The sentencing phase of the trial of Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter who staged the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Florida, began on Monday with the prosecution calling for the death penalty for his "atrocious and cruel" massacre of 17 people.
37% : State prosecutors for Broward County, which lies just north of Miami, have said since the massacre that they would seek the death penalty for the shooter, adding that they have not negotiated the matter with the defense, which is made up of public defenders.

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