A jury in Broward County, Fla., reached a verdict Wednesday to determine whether Parkland shooter Nicholas Cruz should be executed in the 2018 school massacre.
The jury’s nominations will be read at 10:30 am EDT.
Cruise, 24, pleaded guilty last year to the February 14, 2018 murder of 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Cruz fired a volley into the classroom from an AR-15-style semi-automatic hallway for about seven minutes, returning to and killing the wounded.
Cruz said he bought the rifle almost exactly a year before the shooting and began serious planning about seven months ago.
At some point during deliberation, the jury returned to court to read back the testimony of two doctors about Cruz’s mental state.
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He looked up previous mass shootings, saying he tried to learn from their experiences.
During the three-month criminal trial that decided his sentence, prosecutors played security videos of the shooting and showed gruesome crime scenes and autopsy photos.
Teachers and students testified to seeing other students and staff killed, and parents and spouses made emotional statements.
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Cruise’s lead attorney, Melissa McNeill, and her team claimed that his birth mother drank heavily during her pregnancy, which caused him to develop fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
His adoptive mother was unable to cope with his severe mental and emotional deficits, which were never properly treated, McNeill told jurors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.