Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was disappointed to learn that Parkland mass shooter Nikolas Cruz was not going to receive the death penalty after a jury recommended life in prison without parole.
“I just want to say one thing about this verdict with the Parkland killer. I think if you have a death penalty at all, that is a case where you’re massacring those students with premeditation and utter disregard for basic humanity, you deserve the death penalty,” DeSantis said. “The jurors came back, 11-1, with one hold out, refusing to authorize the ultimate punishment, and that means that this killer is going to end up getting the same sentence as those who have committed bad acts, but acts that did not rise to this level.”
“I just don’t think anything else is appropriate, except a capital sentence, in this case. So I was very disappointed to see that. I’m also disappointed to see that we’re four and a half years after these killings and we’re just now getting this?” DeSantis said. “You know they used to do this, he would’ve been executed in six months. He’s guilty, everybody knew that from the beginning, and yet it takes years and years in this legal system that is not serving the interests of victims.”
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