Parkland shooting victim parents furious after jury fails to recommend death penalty: 'I'm disgusted'
foxnews.comParents of the victims of the 2018 Parkland, Florida, high school shooting are speaking out on Thursday following a Broward County jury sentence that would give their children's killer life in prison – not the death penalty.
Fred Guttenberg, who lost 14-year-old daughter Jaime Guttenberg in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, said he hopes that the shooter, 24-year-old Nikolas Cruz, dies in prison. "I'm stunned.
I'm devastated.There are 17 victims that did not receive justice today," he told reporters. "My daughter – you'll notice she was the 16th of the 17 to be read today.
She was shot running down a hallway. Now, what mitigating factor was it that they used on her? Were they going to suggest that he didn't have the fine motor skill to shoot that gun as she was running down the hallway?" "This jury failed our families today.
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