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“The monster that killed them gets to live another day,” said Tony Montalto, whose daughter, Gina, was among the 17 people murdered in a Florida high school. The jury foreman said three jurors had voted against the death penalty.
A juror says he and others tried to persuade those who wanted to spare the gunman’s life by making them look again at the evidence of his rampage, including the weapon he used to kill 17 people.
By Patricia Mazzei and
The jury will decide if the gunman who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 gets sentenced to death or to life in prison.
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His biological mother’s drug and alcohol use irreparably harmed his brain, defense lawyers said. Then his adoptive mother became overwhelmed with treating his many problems.
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A gunman pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of 17 people and the attempted murder of 17 others. Jurors will decide whether he can be sentenced to death.
By Patricia Mazzei, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and
We look back at conversations with some of the survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
By Clare Toeniskoetter, Sydney Harper, Lisa Tobin, Anita Badejo and
The nature of a death-penalty trial requires documenting brutal crimes in painful detail, even when the defendant’s guilt has never been in doubt.
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Four years after the Hoyers lost their youngest child in the Florida school shooting, a jury will decide whether the killer should get the death penalty. The Hoyers had to decide, too.
By Audra D. S. Burch and
Brittany Sinitch, who taught at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, said her students had been writing Valentine’s Day cards to one another when she heard gunshots in the school’s hallway.
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The students have now lived four years in the spotlight, juggling activism, college and growing into adulthood under the media’s glare.
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Judge Elizabeth A. Scherer will impose the gunman’s sentence after the jury recommends death or life in prison.
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Jurors are hearing evidence about aggravating factors that might warrant recommending the death penalty for the gunman, who has pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Patricia Mazzei and
Danielle Gilbert, who was a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting in 2018, recorded several videos inside a classroom. They were played for jurors during the trial.
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The rare trial of a gunman in a mass shooting has underscored how massacres shatter families and communities over time.
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