Nikolas Cruz

In the last phase of the death penalty trial for Nikolas Cruz, lawyers gave their final remarks on what should happen to the shooter. It is now on the jury to decide his fate.

The defense team for Nikolas Cruz filed their request to remove Judge Elizabeth Scherer last Friday after she called them "unprofessional."

The death penalty trial for the Parkland shooting trial resumed this week after a two-week break and Nikolas Cruz's lawyers have continued to take jurors through his life chronologically as they seek to prove his difficult childhood contributed to the violence.

Defense lawyers for the Parkland school shooter rested their case Wednesday, a move that came as a surprise — especially to the judge.

Nikolas Cruz has already pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and wounding others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Jurors are deciding whether he'll be executed or spend life in prison.

Jurors visited the school building where the massacre happened — seeing with their own eyes the bloodstains and bullet holes preserved at the crime scene — and heard the final victim impact statements from loved ones of those who were murdered.

The evidence on the first day of the trial was brutal and graphic. It was also a taste of what the next few months of the trial will be like.

Jurors must decide whether Nikolas Cruz gets death or life without parole.

Opening statements are scheduled Monday in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial. That's four years after Cruz murdered 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The judge will order 11 potential jurors she dismissed on April 5 without questioning to be brought back to court to be queried by the attorneys.

Nearly a dozen prematurely dismissed jurors were supposed to return to court Monday but didn't because of a miscommunication error.

The sentencing trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz begins Monday, with the start of the jury selection process. There’s only two possible sentences: life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty.