Photos: Day of Agony for Families as Parkland School Shooter Gets Life in Prison
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After a nearly three-month long trial, families of victims listened as a jury recommended on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 that the shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in 2018 be spared the death penalty and instead be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Several families have expressed anger and disappointment in the decision, calling it a miscarriage of justice.
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Mitch and Annika Dworet react as they hear that their son's murderer will not receive the death penalty as the jury decision was announced in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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“This was the last thing my son saw,” said Michael Schulman as he holds a screen shot of the Parkland shooter as his wife Linda Beigel Schulman looks on after the jury recommends life in prison at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Ilan and Lori Alhadeff, center, react as they hear that their daughter's murderer will not receive the death penalty as the jury decision was announced in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Debbie Hixon reaches out to her sister-in-law, Natalie Hixon as the jury decision was announced in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 13, 2022.
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Anne Marie Ramsay, second from left and Vincent Ramsay, right, react as they hear that their daughter's murderer will not receive the death penalty as the jury decision was announced in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Peter Wang’s mother Hui Wang wipes away a tear after the jury rejected a death sentence for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 13, 2022. Wang was one of 17 who died in the February 14, 2018 mass shooting.
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Joaquin Oliver’s sister Andrea Ghersi hugs Assistant State Attorney Nicole Chiappone after the jury rejected a death sentence for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 13, 2022.
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Fred Guttenberg reacts as he awaits a jury decision in the death penalty trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Guttenberg's daughter, Jaime, was killed in the 2018 shootings.
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Ryan Petty comforts Ilan Alhadeff as they await the jury decision in the trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Gena Hoyer awaits the jury decision in the death penalty trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on October 13, 2022. Her son, Luke, was one of 17 killed in the mass shooting.
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Fred Guttenberg (R), seated with his wife, Jennifer, listens to the reading of jury instructions in the death penalty trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on October 12, 2022. The Guttenberg's daughter, Jaime, was killed in the 2018 shootings.
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Gena Hoyer holds a photograph of her son, Luke, who was killed in the 2018 shootings, as she awaits jury recommendation in the penalty trial of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter at the Broward County Courthouse October 13, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
