On Thursday, a jury in Florida recommended that Parkland school shooter Nikolas Jacob Cruz be sentenced to life in prison. Sentencing will be issued at a later date. The prosecution noted that victims have a right under the Florida constitution to express themselves as to the crime committed.

Cruz, now 23, entered Marjory Stonemason Douglass High School on February 14, 2018, killing 14 students and three staff members with a semiautomatic rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.