Parkland

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.

It's not a new debate — but could showing graphic evidence of mass school shootings change public opinion on gun laws?

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.

While Florida schools use a common “instrument” called the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines, they don’t have a common threat-assessment process or reporting system.

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.

As is the case in most of the U.S., neither Florida nor Broward County courts provide juries with post-trial counseling.

Broward County School Board member Lori Alhadeff won her seat after her daughter was killed during the Parkland shooting.

It includes a requirement that law-enforcement officers at public schools complete mental-health crisis intervention training.

Cities and counties challenged the 2011 law after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that killed 17 people.

Said Rep. Dottie Joseph: “This is not a game, this is not a joke. People are dying. Thoughts and prayers are nice, but faith without works, is dead."

The lead public defender said the jurors should be dismissed because the shirt possibly could have been prejudiced others against him. Prosecutors agreed.