Parkland school shooter avoids death penalty and instead gets to live off taxpayers for the rest of his life.
Why does EVERYTHING have to completely suck in this day and age? Why can't ANYTHING make just a little fucking sense. I hate everything. I shouldn't even read the news anymore.
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The family of 15-year-old Parkland massacre victim Peter Wang says they are “shocked” at the jury’s decision in the Parkland school shooting case.
“It’s just so unjust,” Wang’s cousin Lin Chen said. “We thought this was clear. This monster killed 17 people, how can he live another day?”
She spoke of how Wang’s mother is traumatized after the shooting.
“My aunt has changed forever … She cannot function normally. She cannot sleep, the constant insomnia. And we came here, thought that we could get a little comfort for my family but no, they just pushed them further,” Chen said.
The families of Parkland shooting victims “have to live knowing the fact that the murderer is in the jail every single day, breathing, eating and getting help by their lawyers,” Chen said. “What about the kids? What about the families? This is not about the shooter.”
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After a Florida jury recommended Parkland school shooting gunman Nikolas Cruz be
sentenced for life without parole, 49-year-old Chris Hixon’s widow said she was “completely devastated and shocked,” and questioned how the jury did not unanimously find that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigating factors.
“What it says to me, what is says to my family, what it says to the other families is that his life meant more than the 17 that were murdered … and the thousands of people in that school and that community that are terrorized and traumatized every single day,” Debra Hixon said at a press conference Thursday.
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Fred Guttenberg, the father of
14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg, said the Parkland massacre victims’ families were robbed of justice by a jury’s recommendation to sentence the shooter life in prison rather than the death penalty.
“There are 17 victims that did not receive justice today,” Guttenberg said, addressing reporters outside court.
His daughter was the 16th of the 17th victims whose names were read aloud today. The jury’s recommendations for each count were read in the order the victims were shot.
“This jury failed our families today,” Guttenberg said.
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“I’m disgusted with our legal system,” the visibly angry father said outside court. “I’m disgusted with those jurors.”
Both parents questioned the purpose of the death penalty in Florida’s legal system if not for the case of a mass school shooter.
“What is the death penalty for?” Lori asked.
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“Pressing the barrel of his weapon to my daughter’s chest and that doesn’t outweigh the poor little what’s-his-name had a tough upbringing? I mean society has to really look and re-examine who and what is a victim. Not everyone’s a victim. My beautiful Gina, the other sons and daughters, spouses and fathers — they were the victims here,” he said at a press conference Thursday.