Defence urges Florida jury to spare life of Parkland school shooter

A defence attorney on Monday implored a Florida jury to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting in the city of Parkland, citing brain damage linked to fetal drug and alcohol exposure as reason not to impose the death penalty.

“Because of that, his brain was irretrievably broken, through no fault of his own,” McNeil told the jury. Prosecutor Michael Satz told jurors in July that Cruz, a 19-year-old expelled student at the time of the shootings, should be put to death for “goal-directed, planned, systematic murder – mass murder – of 14 students, an athletic director, a teacher and a coach.”

Cruz said when he pleaded guilty that he was “very sorry” and asked to be given a chance to help others.

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