Florida prosecutors intend to seek death penalty for Parkland school shooterhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/world/death-penalty-florida-shooter-1.4574344 Florida prosecutors want to seek the death penalty against the Florida school shooting suspect, Nikolas Cruz. 17 people were fatally shot at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Nikolas Cruz is facing 34 charges including 17 first-degree murder charges. His attorney’s will have him plead guilty only if there was no death penalty charges. Rather than the death penalty, the only other option is life in prison with no opportunity for parole. The office that is represent Nikolas Crus,states that there were a bunch of warning signs that Cruz was mentally unstable and could be violent, and using the death penalty would be going “too far”. "We still stand ready to immediately plead guilty to 34 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole," Howard Finkelstein, a county public defender, wrote in an email. "If we are not allowed to do so tomorrow, we will stand mute to the charges. We are not saying he is not guilty, but we can't plead guilty while death is still on the table." If he doesn’t accept the plea, his judge will. "I don't think death will bring back the lives of the 17 people who were killed and it certainly doesn't solve our ongoing issue… when it comes to gun violence," -Daniel Reed (a parent of a student at the high school. Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jamie Guttenberg also died in the shooting, was angry the state pursued the death penalty, noting how tortuously long capital punishment cases last. In my opinion, I feel like he shouldn't be put to the death penalty. Nobody deserves to die, and living with the guilt that you've killed many people would be more painful than death. His life would be made so much more difficult if he were in prison for his entire life. Being put to the death penalty makes it seem like a faster and easier solution to what he's done. He did an unimaginable and inhumane thing, he deserves to live and suffer with what he's done.
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