Justice Denied in Parkland Killings

Fred Guttenberg, seated with his wife, Jennifer Guttenberg, looks skyward as they hear that their daughter’s murderer will not receive the death penalty as the verdicts are announced in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 13, 2022. Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via TNS

Commentary

If anyone ever was a better candidate for the death penalty it is Nikolas Cruz. Four years ago the then-20-year-old shot and killed 17 people, most of them students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.