‘The system failed’: Parkland victim’s father on school shooter avoiding the death penalty
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2024
- The Parkland school shooter has avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - a move that left some of the victims’ loved ones disappointed and angry. #CNN #News
Life in prison at 24 years old is far worse then being put to death. Sitting for decades behind bars, dealing with the aggression of prison culture, and being harassed daily by other inmates is far more fitting a sentence. Prison culture does not take lightly to child abusers, child molesters, or those who have murdered children. They will make sure he gets a taste of his own medicine. Putting him to death would only serve to set him free from the hell that is waiting for him behind bars.
Need hard labour to go with it.
I had an ex-con many years ago (drug use & drug selling) tell me such folk are definate targets of other criminals in prison die in prison before their sentance is ever up!!
@@RonSafreed at least he’ll get prison then death… oh.. wait… how long does it take for the death penalty to actually happen?
@@cesarebachelli hard labor would be ideal.
@@XSlimSxadyX It's pretty quick in Florida, but there are a lot of places where life expectancy is longer on death row than in the general population.
No, the “system” worked exactly the way it is set up to work. There was a trial, he was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and then the sentence was determined by them. That’s the way it works, only there are a number of people who don’t like the outcome.
Many families will not find closure thanks to one juror who perjured herself on the pretrial questionnaire and never considered the death penalty an option. She used the trial and the 17 deaths as a platform for her views.
@@culfou892 So- I take it you’re one who doesn’t like the outcome?
@@culfou892 I suggest they follow their religion and seek forgiveness. They know they can't go against the system. They can sulk all they want.
@@culfou892 Those idiots were never going to "find closure." Closure isn't real. It's a narrative construct.
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
A lot of people are confusing justice with revenge. 🤷♂️
Who cares. It is painfully evident that our system hasn't been able to dispense 'justice' for many decades. Might as well try the revenge thing.
i dont have evidence to contradict your statement that that may be revenge. in fact you may be right. but how can you be sure "just" a life sentence is justice?
Is it better or worse to lock away the mentally ill?
@@TheMalfean so who decides when it is okay for revenge, and to what degree?
@@kbanghart The family of the victim - with legal maximums in place.
The family who lost a child at Parkland, will not feel “better” because another child, who is mentally disturbed was not put to death. Healing comes from compassion, more hatred & death, does not heal.
So very, very true.
Well said, Roxann.
I hate how fuckin long this took to handle this mass shooting. To finally give him his sentence. Took to long.
I think life in prison is harsher than death.
To you yes but to him life inside was a better option than life outside and the exact reason why most of these shootings happen!
So giving them a stable life is rewarding bad behaviour!
Remember he said before even doing what he did he wanted to see the families of the victims suffering!
And now he can sit in jail reading fan mail and receiving money from crazy people!
Not to mention inspiring others that are finding life just to hard on the outside!
I also oppose the death penalty…. Doesn’t belong into a civilized society
@@kennyknackers6084 A stable life in prison? US prisons are no playgrounds.
@@ayejay5603 meanwhile baby killer Chris watts is planning a wedding behind bars!
@@kennyknackers6084 with all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about, I couldn't life a "stable life" if I couldn't leave my own house much less if I had to be sharing it with rapist and murderers.
Having said that; if I was this parent I would want to kill that guy myself but I wouldn't say the system failed because on the contrary the system worked like it's supposed to ( the guy had his day in court, was found guilty by a group of his peers and got sentenced to life in prison).
Life doesn't always happen the way we want.
Killing a murderer make you a murderer.
Good
Death penalty is a failure of the system. They deserve to suffer for life, not a painless end.
Exactly.
He deserves a chance to become a worthwhile human being.
Exactly!
As a Canadian watching this,
It seems strange that this one kid changed so many people's lives. Because in most countries, how would some kid get hold of a deadly weapon like that and do this?
It seems like this is a US problem... Its not like other countries don't have deranged psychopaths...
Its way way too easy to obtain a deadly firearm in the US.
You asked how could some kid to get a hold of such a deadly weapon. The kid or in this case the criminal shooter violated numerous common sense gun laws that we put in place to make schools safer. We have enacted a plethora of common sense to gun laws but we see these common sense gun laws violated time after time by the criminal. We have seen these common sense gun laws that have made gun free zones the most dangerous places in America.
@T No, it does not happen only in the USA. We have seen recently at least two other mass shootings that have happened in other parts of the world. You are believing in the propaganda if you think that these mass shootings only occur in the United States. Mass shootings occur in other parts of the world, some countries that have extremely strict gun laws.
@@t.r.campbell6585 Apparently you haven't seen the statistics on countries that have strict gun laws versus the ones that don't.
You forget that again other countries there are mass shootings. Some of the countries have outrageously strict gun control laws. There was a most recent mass shooting in Thailand. These mass shootings happen all over the world and if you think it only occurs in the United States, you’re believing propaganda.
@@FG-hw5ep You have a very good idea. Why don’t you conduct this research. Remember, in order for your research to be credible you have to enter into this study with an open mind. Good luck.. You do have an excellent idea.
death penalty should be abolished anyway
No no no. America needs to get tough on crime again.
For what?
@@morganstevens3211 The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
It's the world's hardest thing in the world when you lose a child or to bury someone you love the hard part is moving on and for some people moving on is the worst thing ever🤔
Honestly if FLORIDA couldn’t execute the most executable murderer in the state, its a sign capitol punishment is falling deeply out of favour
It actually has. We have the largest number of incarcerated people in the world. We need to hold people accountable for their crimes, and I personally want him to suffer every minute of every day of his natural life. I am happy they threw away the key and hoping he goes to sleep every night in fear of getting beaten and raped. because he deserves it.
@@MakatiMazz Says the guy who generalizes an entire state due to political tribalism.
It's cheaper for the American taxpayers to sentence him to life without parole instead of the death penalty. Remember, there are very few millionaires on death row. Our justice system is based on how much justice one can afford..lol
Obviously you've never even spent a day in jail. You probably have loving parents who have adorable pictures of you. What do you know about life in prison? You're completely ignorant. It's not a game.
Yes . Good
He means the system failed the shooter!
Any murderer should do hard labour or repetitive factory-ish work. Have you seen how "dead" factory workers are?
Justice will get him in prison.
Justice must be seen to be untarnished, if a jury member was threatened then there needs to be another jury to make an untarnished decision. My heart bleeds for your pain.
u can’t make new decision till you get right one. If there was something wrong, it should have been stopped on spot before decision was made and find a new jury.
@@Aqout It’s not about just doing it to get what they want, it’s about knowing the decision was fair.
Not according to the Constitution
The overshadowing problem is the rapid rise of pdf file cops in thin blue line
Democrats are the ones who burned their city’s democrats are the ones who send millennials to target the supreme courts , democrats murdered more then 900 police officers democrats murdered over 8000 elderly democrats murdered millions of babies democrats left a thousand Americans behind in Afghanistan children included all murdered , democrats murder in democratic states has tripled democrats are why there’s a war democrats are why gas and food is high and democrats split Americans now 30 million democrats joined republicans against you there’s no going back , your party will lose come November it’s a promise from us real Americans who respect our constitutions and laws and we respect God , democrats tried to destroy all of it and the fact those who are still. Democrats back Biden who admitted last week to having sex with a 12 year old when he was 30 shows how morally bankrupt inherently evil cowards they are pelosi saying today she wants to smack Trump shows the world democrats are violent racists liars
" The system failed"! Our legal system usually does. Trump will walk! Flynn will walk, Stone will walk, Eastman will walk, Etc!! My heart goes out to the families suffering through this unspeakable tragedy!
The problem is pretty much FULLY with the broken gun laws. Every country has psychopaths, but very few countries have this high amount of school shootings. That's because in most countries it's impossible to buy a gun legally.
They say the brain isn't fully developed in teens, that's what's bothering me.🤷♀️
Same goes for liberals.
America doesn't care about that, we allow children to make life changing medical decisions in regards to gender reassignment.
The killer was tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. How is that a failure of the system?
They want the death penalty
@@gc6096 and it isn't warranted here. So move along.
Because it doesn’t satisfy the blood lust of revenge.
@@annakat3754 you people are sick I wish the worst happens to you and your family, maybe then you will understand the pain these families went through
@@G_Demolished well you didn't lose one your fucking family members in a horrific way did you. this guy ttly deserve the death sentence cmon.
Release him to the families and let them decide his fate.
Frontier justice has long since entered the history books.............
The families aren't going to beat him to death. They're not savages.
It is not about revenge, it is about Justice, and I think justice is served up nicely.
I don't understand how someone could feel threatened and the prosecutor not do anything that's expect a mistrial right off the dang bat this is wrong on every level
Well you never went to college, which is why you can't understand why there would never be a mistrial in this circumstance.
The death penalty diminishes us all:
The brother of one of the victims said last week that he did not support the death penalty for Cruz due to its immorality.
“Logically, it doesn’t follow for me that we say, ‘Murdering someone is this horrible, heinous, awful, terrible thing, and in order to prove that point, we’re going to do it to someone else,’” said Robert Schentrup, whose 16-year-old sister Carmen was among those killed.
“And I understood that if this is something that I felt that I believe that it needed to apply in my personal case and beyond,” he said. “I had to look deep into my values and say, is this something that connects with it? And if so, live through that.”
So does ignoring and justifying the war crimes carried out by our own government.
@@vladtheinhaler8940 Not the time, nor the place.
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
Abolish the death penalty.
No
nah some mfs can't be around society. lol there's people as a collective society we need to take them out before they take us out. dude woke up 1 day and kill 14 kids and 2 adults and wish he could've killed more but couldn't find anybody and even in prison he wants to keep killing. this guy gots to go. could've been my own son I would've told him to take the death penalty for what he did.
Only a bleeding heart democrat would say such a thing. Sick.
@@mriphone1000 Yeah, people smarter than you think things you don't like.
The death penalty is the easy way out. I believe life without parole is worse. He will always have a target on his back in prison and he will suffer every day for the rest of his life until someone gets him.
which is disgusting given the fact that he has a clear mental health incapacity. Just another example of how persons with mental illness are not treated fairly in this world.
Nah they'll put him in protective custody and isolate him.
I had an ex-con many years ago say to me that child rapists & killers are a big target in prison as well as men who rape & kill girls & women!!
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
They act like life imprisonment is nothing
They should put him in solitary for thirty years then release him to the worst prison in the US
They don’t evade taxes. They pay for their children’s murderer to live.
Except we are paying for his food and lodging for the rest of his miserable life.
@@bradynlotterman8164 Yeah, we also pay for other countries wars and defense as well.
@Censored Opinions Fair
I believe the punishment is just. First, because state-sanctioned killing is just flat wrong. But more importantly, because those families have to live the rest of their lives with their loss whether or not he was put down. But now, he will spend the rest of his with his guilt and shame. Let it be a long one.
The US government kills innocent people without consequences all the time, most people don't care about that.
Can you people hear yourselves? Violent from age 3. Three! If a CHILD that young has violent tendencies that led to this moment, then it sounds to me like the system failed him and all these families.
Let's go back to his Google searches. He searched for 'loneliness' and 'how to get help'. Sounds to me like he wasn't getting the help he needed. As someone who has tried to get mental help by myself, let me tell you the system does not make it easy to get help. To this day I still have an eating disorder and addictions because I refused to pop pills instead of dealing with the underlying issues that cause these problems. Medicare, including mental health, is a lucrative BUSINESS and if they fix you, your no longer putting money in these greedy private industries. If medicated, even if it's not helping, the you are no longer a patient your a customer.
Blame the people who had 15/16 years to deal with his issues, but chose instead to medicate him and move him along.
Finally someone understands.
Blaming the so called system is pointless, and doesn't mean anything. Humans are far more complex than you seem to realize.
@@vladtheinhaler8940 your right I misspoke, I should have used the word industries since the greater majority of hospitals privately owned. They're used by the wealthiest, not only as source of income, but also a decent tax right off.
The system didn't fail. He's now going to rot away in jail instead of getting the easy way out.
Exactly
Yes. The system failed this boy from infancy on. He is a product of a broken system.
It didn't fail. It just didn't give him what he wants.
Agree with life imprisonment no parole but should be hard labour in a salt mine ? Horrific murders so sad for the families.
I hate that that happened to all these people and their families. Perhaps life is the right option. I'm not sure I agree with the death penalty. Mainly because I don't think it will ever be equal.
But why should the people support him for the rest of his life? House him, feed him, and provide medical care and all of this at no cost to him. I live in Florida just about 10 miles from where he killed those people and I have to help support him for many years to come.
@@mykline1 The laws state when executing a person, he does not suffer. I want him to suffer every minute of every day for the rest of his natural life. I want him to sleep every night in fear of getting beaten and raped, I want him to suffer the knowledge he will never see the light of day again. I haven't got a problem of supporting his suffering, he is merely one person among thousands we are already supporting, so what's one more.
@@mykline1 just looked it up and it seems like it really can be more expensive to use the death penalty than life in prison.
@@mykline1 oh you have to pay taxes? Boo fucking hoo so does everybody else
It's not about it being equal, it is about punishment.
My ❤ goes out to all the parents and family. This is humanity at it’s very worse, and that killer should be punished as such.
Parents should decide.. not random people
Defund the police!
@@KrustyKlown As much as that might make you happy, there is a reason why we don't use that method.
@@vladtheinhaler8940 In this absolutely horrific case .. new rules should apply. Normally I am anti-death penalty .. because a dead person can't be punished. But those parents have needs, needs you can't imagine unless your kid had been murdered.
@@KrustyKlown they don't need for him to be killed. Trust me, they'll get over it. I bet they even call themselves Christians. What happened to forgiveness? An eye for an eye makes the world blind. Remember that, troll.
CNN has to be loving this , because it just keeps going and going !
I can understand why this father is upset, anyone would be if their child was the one killed.
The good thing, is that the system actually did work. He was found guilty and will be punished. Obviously not the punishment some wanted, but a punishment none the less..
Essentially even if he received the death penalty, he would still spend many years in prison on death row. As death row inmates are generally executed years, if not decades later.
I guess the only real advantage would be that the victims families could watch him be executed. But even that can be a haunting experience and not as satisfying as one may initially think.
Either way he will die in prison, whether sooner or later.
Justice is served...
Still a horrible situation regardless.
@@KaleidoscopicPalindrome no. You will be paying him for the rest of his life
I can see the strength, hurt, anger and pain in the Father May God Comfort Him!!!
There is no God. Only democrats that are soft on criminals.
Just a little late for prayer.
I feel like life in prison is worse then instant death
The father wants revenge. I would too. But what rational reason exists to kill Cruze? Could he escape prison? Maybe that's a reason. Vengeance? Sure, but that's for the families of the victims. Should society get vengeance on certain criminals? I don't think so. Deterrant? No way! Most mass shooters are suicidal or not thinking logically obviously. Serial killers always think they won't be caught. Money? Maybe. The idea that the victim's families and the rest of society must house and feed this criminal for the rest of his life may be a reason to kill him. And don't tell me that it costs more to put a criminal to death cause that doesn't have to be that way. That can be removed. The ONLY argument for the death penalty that I can think of is that the victim's families deserve that to help them heal. If I were a parent of one of the victims I'd want him dead. I'd probably find a way to make it happen in prison somehow if someone ever hurt my kids. Hard to know for sure what I'd be thinking.
The System did not fail, he was found guilty. Some people oppose the death penalty for any crime. I don't think we should pay for his incarceration, food and medical care.
But you think we should pay to kill him? That's a higher cost. Why should we force an innocent man to kill someone you don't like?
No, the system didn't fail. It's working as intended, as it's designed. It's the criminal justice system.
You are right. They're blaming the wrong system. They should blame the health care system that was so focused on giving him medication to mask his problems rather than dealing with the underlying issues.
@@AN-fk1vu This is such a typical sentiment here in America, people want to place the blame everywhere else but where it actually belongs.
@@vladtheinhaler8940 not just America here in Canada as well. It's how western civilization has been conditioned. Everything I point out that they decided to medicate him for 15 years rather than deal with the underlying issues my comments vanish in seconds. CNN is the worst for it.
Protection and justice from the system failed. Protect yourselves because the system absolutely won't!
@@vladtheinhaler8940 The blame is on being able to buy a military style assault rifle at your local Walmart 3 years before you're even allowed to buy a beer. Every country has crazy fools, and very few counties deal with them effectively. The reason they hardly have mass shootings is because they don't have access to guns!
Wouldn't matter - People go on death row that simply wait there for 20+ years - our system of justice is a joke.
They do not all wait that long, and the primary reason for the long time frame is due to the appeals process they receive.
If you voted for life then don't turn around and play a victim stand by your choice and take the heat let's not forget these murders were premeditated not accidental or spur of the moment but planned so if the mental health issue was the reason then I ask why he didn't do this long ago he was an angry boy and wanted to erase these people thats not mental health that's pure evil
I agree you got these bleeding hearts folks, who are to mentally weak to make hard choices, so they use choosing life as a excuse it's more about them then the case.
He probably didn't feel as strong when he was at the school, so after some time away he built up some confidence to commit those violent acts. As you can see he gained so much confidence he attacked a correction officer and tried to taz the officer.
I don’t believe Cruz is insane. I watched the entire initial interrogation on RUclips and he literally behaved like he was playing the system.
He ain’t that bright. He’s not stupid to the point he needs help wiping his ass, no but he has had violent issues since he was 3 years old. If that doesn’t show that he had behavioral issues, then what? His problems have been consistent through his whole life, it’s not just during his high school life that he “decided to be evil”
His actions prove he's insane.
@@michaelmorningstar8645 no sane
@@itsbeyondme5560 Stay stupid.
It worked, honor the jury's decision. Its not what you want but he'll never get out either
Damn hell he won’t
I agree that we must honor the jury decision. We may not like the decision and may not be what we would have chosen, but to say "the system failed" is just not correct. I feel bad for him and all of the families who did not ask for what happened to them, I hope they can find some kind of closure now that the trial is done and this loser is going to rot in a cell.
"The system failed" -Better call saul s5 ep 7
look for the real truth not propaganda
I’m not a fan of capital punishment but I would support government sanctioned survivor and victim retribution. Let survivors and victims punish the perpetrators.
How is that any better?
@@vladtheinhaler8940 retribution as punishment works for me. I don’t need an executioner to handle my need for justice. I can do that part myself.
If he truly repents. Truly believes in GOD. And Trust GOD. He can save his soul. His flesh body is doomed and he will have to pay for his actions in this life. He can be saved by GOD if he gets to know GOD.
Mental illness isn't an excuse for the opportunity of crime.
the schools security system fail
School security isn't gonna stop a kid armed with assault rifles. Are you kidding? Only thing that failed here is the second amendment. Ban all firearms.
He will have a long time in prison to receive his punishment. Murder is not a solution.
Life in prison without parole is the same thing. Except it’s cheaper for the tax payer, more humane (because lethal injection often fails and is administered by untrained non-professionals), and just the better option. The death penalty should not and should never have been a thing. I understand this fathers pain, but if he wanted the death penalty he did not want justice, he wanted revenge.
And so would you and if say you wouldn't your lying. Isn't it great you care more about the murder then the victims and their families !
I could care less about being "humane" to that pos
@@donbelenger817 If I wanted revenge I would consider it an imperative that I go and take it with my own hands. As much as I sympathize with him for his pain, there is nothing decent about authorizing the state to murder people just because it might make you feel better. There can be no more terrible notion of justice than that.
@@PinkAsAPistol that's asinine, so your alright with someone who commits premeditated murder of 17 people yet you think that person has a redeeming quality so let them live. Unreal.if its cut and dry case , which this was, he even plead guilty. Then he should be put to death. This case is the reason a death penalty should exist.
This is a naive statement. It's ridiculous to make the claim that the death penalty should have never been a thing.
I'm so sorry for the families. Praying for them
My heart is broken for you, God bless. 🙏
revenge shouldnt be the reason for death penalty. putting him into a cell for 60 years is true and utter torture. its even worse than killing him
Exactly! The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
It's hard for me to say this to this man. But the system didn't fail, it did exactly what it's supposed to do. Protect white men from being held accountable no matter what the crime. The system sees the life of a white young male who murdered children in a school as a life worth saving and preserving, while any person who is not white, doesn't deserve to live in peace, or receive any justice. I wish these parents receive justice.
Did it fail? Or is the D penalty a huge waste of money and gives the criminals an easy way out? Sitting in prison for the rest of my life sounds like the worst type of hell, especially as a teenager like he was when he went in. Well educated people like philosophers and neuroscientists recognize that you are who you are because of your genetics and your life experiences. An underage person like him can claim responsibility for neither. If this understandably angry father were to switch places with the killer atom for atom, he would have committed the same crimes. He would be him. There would be no extra part of him to decide to do otherwise.
This is completely ridiculous and not based in reality. Making the claim that genetics and personal life experiences are what makes a person is not an argument. He was a legal adult when he committed the crime.
System didn't fail. The only thing that failed is that any idiot can buy a military style assault rifle in your local supermarket 3 years before you're even legally allowed to drink a beer. The USA is the only country in the whole world where a father can buy a pink and yellow pokemon colored ar-15 for their little daughter and not be breaking any laws. And when you try to explain to an american that this is a dangerous and illogical way to approach gun ownership, they go absolutely crazy. They have no idea why they're THE ONLY country in the world that has mass school shootings on a regular basis. They'll give hundreds of reasons, but the gun laws are not to blame. Yeah right!
Pple are acting like he got found not guilty or only got five years.
There is absolutely no money in the death penalty and millions in life in prison
Death is a mercy for someone destined to rot in prison for the entirety of their life. Justice was served
What the hell is wrong with everyone? Your heart breaks because someone isn't going to be killed? Humanity at its worst? Yeah, but it's not because of the verdict it's because of this reaction to it.
Do you have children? If so, can you imagine someone slaughtering your child just for the hell of it? This guy should hung for the whole damn nation to witness.
I don't believe the death penalty should be here it should be abolished.
It was a death sentence case, the juror that didn't want tge death sentence should hv been disqualified!! The person is a murderer of 17, now the state has to support this person for the rest of his life! Juror or jurors voting no should hang their head/s in shame! Shame on you!!!!
1- my prayers and thoughts go out to all the families of the victims
2- 4:57 that is the most beautiful judge I’ve ever seen
What's with boomers thinking it's okay to just say and write inappropriate things like that publicly.
The system worked just fine. We don't kill. Murder is murder.
Well said!
If you kill children you deserve to pay with your life , not open to debate. I pray this poor father and victim family’s get the justice they deserve 🙏
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
Won't you notice that 5 Italian students who were doing combino in Brazil were shot when entering a favela by mistake??
It is time to learn some new lessons, as for example, from Norway. Correction does not happen from retribution. The eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth business is left over from cave man days. The state has no right to increase the violence done by a violent offender. If we had a decent mental health interception system, this and the other murders could have been caught before they manifested. How does it benefit the bereft to simply add to the violence ? We have to think again about human dignity and what it means.
There is no reason to compare the US with Norway. The society is not the same.
People who did not commit any crime were sent to an electric chair in Alabama and Mississpi. If he was a black he would have been sent to hell long time ago.
You don't know what hell is boy. Spend a night in jail. Your loving parents will miss you.
My heart breaks for you. I could not imagine what your family has gone through
School officials are slightly responsible or cause of this gun massacre for not taking bullying seriously too. Make bullies accountable before the victims take payback and kill innocent lives.
If they school officials did they're job or parents got him the right support this gun massacre wouldn't have happened.
I think better man is correct. But I know that the man's not going to last long in prison without being murdered by the other prisoners.
What is wrong with life in prison? The death penalty not only costs tax payers MORE money but it’s incredibly reductive. There’s a reason only Iran, China and Saudi Arabia still use the death penalty
You're quite wrong friend. According to wikipedia there are currently 55 countries where the death penalty is still in effect. That's nearly a quarter all countries in the world.
You're also wrong about the death penalty costing more than life in prison. The average execution costs around 1.26 million usd. But a year in prison costs around 70,000 usd per inmate. So if this young fool will survive another 50 years, he will have costs about 3.5 million usd: nearly 3 times what an execution would have cost.
That said, I do agree with you that life in prison is better punishment. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
Victor's beard is weirdly angled
so distracting. 🤣
I do not support state sanctioned killing.
Furthermore, the very people who told us how the good guys with guns kill the bad guys with guns, trained this person in that school.
Darrell Brooks in Waukesha
Eric Brown in Detroit
C'mon, the prosecutor had no choice but to offer a life sentence. By pleading guilty, the accused saved American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars by avoiding the rigors and expense of a trial. Furthermore, a death sentence provides appeals all the way to the SC. costing taxpayers millions more. If the parents of the victims want to pool together millions to get the death penalty,then fine. But it won't make the public any safer than him getting life without parole.
To say that he's not mentally ill is wrong, but it's not an excuse. Also, law is for justice not vengeance. I understand the anger but he's not helping her or the other people in his life obsessing on revenge
No one said it was an excuse, just mitigating.
The death penalty is NEVER a valid option lest we become the evil we wish to eradicate.
There is a difference between the two.
America is way past that point, might have something to do with all those illegal wars and murdered civilians.
Mixed feelings about the death penalty. It's a law on the books. Not sure how its not applied properly here.
As a European i'm thinking that the American Justice system is a total joke......
Damn, it's not that bad. I like the Icelandic model but...
Come spend a week in one of our nightmare private prisons, and tell me you feel the same way. It's a joke alright, just not for the reasons you're thinking.
As an American I’m thinking Europe is a joke. Always have the United States save their sorry arses. Zip it skippy
As an American I can tell you that it is a complete jokes.
As an American I'm thinking we don't care about European's opinions
you still have death penalty over there? savages
The death penalty shouldn’t exist, but as long as it does, it’s crazy this crime doesn’t count for it
The guy is seriously mentally ill. It's societies fault for putting a gun in his hand.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, that's how many years these so called "medical professionals" had to deal with his issues. Sounds to me like everyone who knew of his behaviour and chose give him pills instead of dealing with his issues are the ones who failed these families. Guess they were too busy trying to profit off the pharmaceuticals they could proscribe than to actually help him. Shame.
Good..Death should never be a thing on anyone. Killing someone won't do anything.. "evil person" lmao this dude has a cartoon level of understanding of anyone
34 parents had their children executed that day but the monster gets to live. Hopefully his cellmate will rectify this injustice.
...leaves us all blind and toothless
Exactly, usually child killers that go to prison have their innards rearranged until they die… good riddance. Bad jury by the way… soft… The perv needs to meet his maker.
I hope he gets the Dahmer cure......
To be fair life in prison is a much worse punishment than death
@@bobsucks9647 And you know this from experience right?
Life in prison is a more miserable existence..........I believe justice was served..........
Agree fully. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
The system did exactly wht is was meant to do for the individual it was meant for 👀
Which is?
Good! As evil as this murderer was, you don't repay barbarism with more barbarism.
What did you think was going to happen. The system is rigged.
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
These poor families- I can’t even imagine…
you still get 30plus years on death row
Families of the victims, may the almighty God help you in this difficult moment.
And this is a perfect example of why we don't need any more gun laws because that's not the problem that's right that's not the problem put your listening ears on the problem is the crime doesn't fit the punishment start using a damn death penalty and maybe these killers would think twice before pulling the trigger but yet you reward them with three meals and a cot and health insurance for the rest of their life
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Guaranteed 50+ year paycheck for prison profits as the systems design.
Is execution just in a system that should allow for no crime to escape accountability? Yet does? OR is execution logical in a system that sees no difference between justice and vengeance?
Justice in our society is not vengeance...........It was when frontier justice was the order.........Justice his holding people accountable for their actions.............
Is there a logical reason to think Cruz should not be executed? Take into consideration that there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a mass murderer. Is a flimsy moral high ground really the bigger concern at hand? You question the logic of capital punishment, yet find the difference between justice and revenge as the main concern in this matter. If you choose to prioritize a moral high ground, then by default, logic is not a concern of yours. Choose one already. Will it be logic? Or the sensation of feeling morally superior to others?
His biological mother Linda saved his life because she ruined hers sad situation rip to the parkland victims 🙏
Perhaps it would have been better all around if he had been aborted.
One woke juror can screw up justice.
The death penalty is useless to me. I want murderers like this to suffer. You can't suffer when you're dead.
This NON death penalty recommendation is becasue of ONE thing, folks. Broward is a Democrat run County