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Parkland school shooter to get life sentence for killing 17

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz leans against a wall waiting to be escorted from the courtroom as the jury resumes deliberations in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. A jury said that it has reached a decision on whether to recommend that Cruz be executed for the 2018 massacre that killed 17 people. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Assistant Public Defender Melisa McNeill along with other members of the defense team enter the courtroom as the jury begins their second day of deliberations in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Assistant State Attorney Carolyn McCann, left, exits the courtroom along with with Gena Hoyer as the jury begins their second day of deliberations in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Hoyer's son, Luke, was killed in the 2018 shootings. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during a hearing just before the jury resumed deliberations in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)