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Friday briefing: How to understand gilts, yields and the Bank of England’s action to aid the economy

In today’s newsletter: Today the UK central bank is due to end its rare, urgent bond-buying to help stabilise the economy – but why, and what does it mean for you?

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After Parkland shooter gets life verdict, what’s next for the death penalty in Florida?

MIAMI — A jury’s decision to hand out a life sentence for Parkland mass killer Nikolas Cruz will make it even more difficult to secure death sentences in the future — and could also spur Florida lawmakers to consider changing the state’s capital punishment law, legal experts say.

Miami Herald

Jury rejects death sentence for Parkland school shooter in all 17 murders

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County jury showed mercy Thursday to a heartless killer who didn’t know the meaning of the word as he stalked the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School more than four years ago, viciously ending the lives of 17 innocent people.

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Juror who prevented Nikolas Cruz getting death penalty defends herself

Cruz will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole for killing 17 and injuring 17

The Independent UK

‘They did not receive justice today’: Families stunned, angered, disgusted by jury's decision to spare life of Parkland gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been 1,702 days since they last looked into the eyes of their child, their spouse, but the families of 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 finally got their moment of reckoning.

Tribune News Service

Parkland survivors demand Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School be torn down after Nikolas Cruz verdict

‘They better tear that building down today,’ former student says

The Independent UK

White House says Parkland verdict ‘brought a measure of justice and accountability’

A Florida jury’s decision to recommend life in prison for the shooter who killed 17 students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drew strong reaction from the families who lost sons, daughters and spouses in the attack, many of whom were outraged that the jury rejected the death…

Miami Herald

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‘Robbed of Justice’: Families shocked as mass shooter avoids death penalty

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended life without the possibility of parole.

The New Daily

The Loop: January 6 committee votes to subpoena Donald Trump for testimony, Parkland shooter spared death penalty for murder — as it happened

What Australia is searching for and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up of this morning's key stories.

ABC News

Nikolas Cruz defence refuses to share his reaction to life sentence verdict

‘This day is not a day of celebration, but a day of solemn acknowledgement and a solemn opportunity to reflect on the healing that is necessary for this community,’ public defender says

The Independent UK

Families’ anger as Parkland school shooter avoids death penalty

Families of victims from the Parkland high school shooting have expressed their frustration after the gunman Nikolas Cruz was spared the death penalty.

Evening Standard

Florida jury recommends Parkland shooter serve life in prison

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

Al Jazeera

Nikolas Cruz verdict came down to single juror who voted against death penalty, Parkland victim’s father says

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

The Independent UK

Parkland victim’s son storms out of court as Nikolas Cruz avoids death penalty

The man’s father was athletic director Chris Hixon, 49, who was killed as he tried to stop the shooting

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The Independent UK

Parkland victims remembered four years on as hero’s widow opens up about the trauma

Chris Hixon was murdered along with 16 other people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. His widow Debbi Hixon tells Rachel Sharp how she hopes the sentencing trial of his killer will finally enable her family to start to grieve

Salon

Parkland jury rejects death penalty

"At least one juror, and all it took was one, was persuaded by the defense plea for mercy"

The Independent UK

‘He’s an animal’: Furious Parkland families hit out after Nikolas Cruz spared death penalty

‘I’m stunned. I’m devastated. There are 17 victims that did not receive justice today,’ Fred Guttenberg says

The Independent UK

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz avoids death penalty and is sentenced to life

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

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Tribune News Service

Parkland gunman gets mercy from jury with life prison sentences for school shooting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — He doesn’t deserve to die.

Tribune News Service

Jury offers mercy, rejects death sentence on all 17 counts for Parkland school shooter

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a heart-wrenching three months reliving one of America’s most heinous crimes, a jury Thursday showed mercy to the Parkland school shooter, rejecting a death sentence and recommending he spend life in prison.

The Guardian - US

Parkland shooter gets life in prison for deadliest US high school massacre

Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty a year ago to killing 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school

Axios

Jury recommends life without parole for Parkland shooter

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

WEKU

A jury recommends life in prison for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz

Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018. Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder.

Daily Mirror

Parkland shooting: Teenager who massacred 17 in school attack spared death penalty

Nikolas Cruz, who during the shooting used clips of ammunition with swastikas carved into them, pleaded guilty to all charges against him after gunning down 17 in a massacre in Parkland, Florida

The Independent UK

Jury reaches a verdict on Nikolas Cruz death sentence trial

The verdict comes on day two of deliberations into whether Cruz should face death for murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018

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