Nikolas Cruz set to plead guilty to Parkland massacre

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Posted at 1:52 AM, Oct 20, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-20 02:52:23-04

Nikolas Cruz is acceptable to plead blameworthy to 17 counts of first-degree execution successful the 2018 massacre astatine a Florida precocious school.

Cruz is scheduled to participate the pleas connected Wednesday for the shootings astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful the metropolis of Parkland.

The 23-year-old erstwhile Stoneman Douglas pupil volition look earlier Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.

She volition inquire him 1 by 1 however helium pleads to each killing.

The blameworthy pleas volition acceptable the signifier for a punishment proceedings successful which 12 jurors volition find whether Cruz should beryllium sentenced to decease oregon beingness successful situation without parole.

Scherer hopes the proceedings tin statesman successful January.

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