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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped a jury’s decision Thursday to recommend that Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz serve a life sentence in prison — arguing that he should be put to death instead.
“I think that if you have a death penalty at all, then that is a case — where you’re massacring those students with premeditation and utter disregard for basic humanity — that you deserve the death penalty,” DeSantis said.
“And so the jurors came back, apparently it was 11-1 [in favor of execution] with one holdout refusing to authorize the ultimate punishment,” he added. “And that means that this killer is going to end up getting the same sentence as people who have committed bad acts, but acts that did not rise to this level.
“I just don’t think anything else is appropriate except the capital sentence in this case,” the governor went on, “and so I was very disappointed to see that.”
The Republican made the comments at a press conference moments after the jury recommended Cruz serve a whole life term without the possibility of parole.
