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Jury says Nicolas Cruz should not get the death penalty for the murder of 17 students and staff at US high school.

Survivors and relatives of the 17 Parkland victims shook their heads as the verdict was read out

The death penalty was on the table, but the jury would've had to reach that decision unanimously.

TAMPA, Fla. — Hillsborough prosecutors will seek the death penalty against two men accused in a pair of 1983 murders, one of which resulted in another man’s wrongful conviction and imprisonment for 37 years.

The convicted man’s lawyer called the prospect of his execution “an ugly spectacle.”

Fort Lauderdale (United States) (AFP) - A jury began deliberations on Wednesday over the fate of Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 people at a Florida high school in 2018, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.

The serial killer murdered 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991

Australian soldiers could potentially be exposed to the death penalty under a military deal with Japan.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A defense lawyer on Tuesday urged jurors to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school, saying he was “doomed from the womb” because his birth mother drank heavily and smoked crack cocaine…