Parkland School Gunman Nikolas Cruz To Plead Guilty To Massacre On Wednesday

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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) — Confessed Parkland schoolhouse shooter Nikolas Cruz is scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected Wednesday wherever he’s expected to plead blameworthy to each charges stemming from the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — the deadliest precocious schoolhouse shooting in US history.

During a proceeding past week, Cruz stood earlier Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer and pleaded blameworthy to attempted aggravated battery connected a instrumentality enforcement officer, and 3 different charges successful the lawsuit of the jailhouse beating of a Broward Sheriff’s deputy, 9 months aft the schoolhouse shootings.

He answered the judge’s question astir his competency successful a dependable dependable and said helium understood that prosecutors tin usage the condemnation arsenic an aggravating origin erstwhile they aboriginal reason for his execution.

At that hearing, it was revealed Cruz volition besides plead blameworthy to 17 counts of premeditated execution and 17 counts of attempted murder.

“We’re asking the tribunal to enforce condemnation connected Wednesday connected counts 18-24 successful the Parkland lawsuit to 17 consecutive beingness sentences,” his lawyer David Wheeler told the judge.

Judge Scherer noted Cruz, present 23, could alteration his caput earlier his plea hearing, which she agreed to acceptable for Wednesday, Oct. 20 astatine 9:30 a.m.

Even aft entering the blameworthy plea, Cruz volition apt inactive spell earlier a assemblage due to the fact that the decease punishment has not been taken disconnected the table. Defense attorneys are hoping to debar the decease punishment and volition apt contiguous Cruz’s past of intelligence unwellness to jurors, attempting to reason for a beingness condemnation instead.

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Cruz volition beryllium sentenced connected the jailhouse artillery lawsuit connected Wednesday. He faces up to 15 years successful situation for that.