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‘This Jury Failed Our Families.’ Loved Ones of Parkland School Massacre Victims Say Justice Eludes Them
CNN ^ | Thu October 13, 2022 | Ray Sanchez

Posted on 10/13/2022 4:49:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Gina Montalto’s parents simply clutched hands and cried as it was announced Thursday that a Florida jury recommended the Parkland school shooter should not be condemned to death.

Tony Montalto, Gina’s father and president of the advocacy group Stand with Parkland, called it “yet another gut punch for so many of us who devastatingly lost our loved ones on that tragic Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.”

“Seventeen beautiful lives were cut short, by murder, and the monster that killed them gets to live to see another day,” Montalto said in a statement, echoing the sentiments of other stunned family members who bowed or shook their heads in disbelief at the decision.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; florida; killer; marjorystoneman; massshooting; nikolascruz; parkland; pumpedupkicks; schoolshooting; teens; valentinesday
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1 posted on 10/13/2022 4:49:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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He’ll be out someday.


2 posted on 10/13/2022 4:49:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Are the people who ignored the warning signs going to be punished?


3 posted on 10/13/2022 4:50:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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They can still have someone do him like they did Dahmer in prison.


4 posted on 10/13/2022 4:50:47 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Jurors have addresses just like everyone else.

I’m just saying.

L


5 posted on 10/13/2022 4:51:27 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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What good is that going to do? It sounds like three jurors voted against the death penalty, but it could have gone the other way, except for one hard no.


6 posted on 10/13/2022 4:53:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Like the families of those killed by Nikolas Cruz, I watched most of the testimony.

It is a miscarriage of justice for one or more jurors to ignore the compelling evidence presented and to deny giving Cruz the death penalty.

As others have said. What does it take to sentence a killer to death????


7 posted on 10/13/2022 4:55:41 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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Desantis said it was a single juror. 11 wanted the death penalty but one held out


8 posted on 10/13/2022 4:55:47 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: for-q-clinton

That’s what I, and another poster, said on an earlier thread. (essentially)


9 posted on 10/13/2022 4:56:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Sorry, Alex Jones has only got so much money.


10 posted on 10/13/2022 4:57:27 PM PDT by x
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What did everybody expect? This is Broward County, full of cry baby liberals. They should change the name to Coward County.


11 posted on 10/13/2022 4:59:24 PM PDT by Colo9250
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Let's be honest here. Look at Florida's Death Row List and you'll see that the bulk of inmates have been there for more than a generation, a large number who have been there for 30 years, and more than a few who have been there for more than 40 years. And this is during the numerous GOP administrations (Bush, Scott, DeSantis) of the last generation. The inmates are going to die in their beds. Nikolas Cruz, regardless of life without parole or the death penalty, will do the same.
12 posted on 10/13/2022 5:01:20 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: God luvs America

That one deranged juror needs to be tghroroughly investigated to see if the juror has a history of opposition to the use of the death penalty.

One would hope that jurors were selected among those who claimed under oath that they had no general opposition to the death penalty as a punishment.


13 posted on 10/13/2022 5:03:51 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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The father implied it was because of the mitigating circumstances presented.


14 posted on 10/13/2022 5:05:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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He’ll be out someday.

Put him in general population and he'll be out in no time...to the funeral home.

15 posted on 10/13/2022 5:06:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I Miss Jimmy Carter)
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Does that matter completely? My understanding is it’s far worse to be on death row than in the regular prison. Also it, it’s probably more likely they will rain in jail for life. I think Nikolas Cruz will get.


16 posted on 10/13/2022 5:06:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If he is, I predict he won’t last long.


17 posted on 10/13/2022 5:07:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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He deserved the death penalty, but he would be sitting on death row for decades of appeals before his execution would ever happen. Justice would be a quick round of appeals and his date with death before the end of next year. However, one could hope that other inmates might serve out their justice on a child killer.


18 posted on 10/13/2022 5:13:23 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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Death row is a much worse place to be that prison. Ghislaine Maxwell is “imprisoned” at a resort. Nikolas Cruz may end up there.


19 posted on 10/13/2022 5:20:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Gay State Conservative; chajin

Ghislaine Maxwell is still alive.


20 posted on 10/13/2022 5:21:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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