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Lawyers chose the 12 people who will decide if the Parkland school shooter spends the rest of his life in prison or gets the death penalty. Jury selection lasted over two months.

The third and final phase of jury selection for the parkland school shooter continues Thursday. Lawyers asked jurors more specific questions about themselves. Twenty jurors will be selected, that includes eight alternates.

Rare normalcy returned to jury selection for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s penalty trial Tuesday, one day after his public defenders threatened to withdraw over the judge’s insistence that they proceed without a key member who had COVID-19.

The trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz is inching forward as jury selection entered its second round this week.

Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer was assigned the case of a former Florida student who gunned down 17 people in 2018 despite never having overseen a death penalty trial or one with much publicity. Her assignment to the Nikolas Cruz case was made randomly by a computer program.

Jury selection for Nikolas Cruz' trial was heading for a restart, but the judge reversed her decision. COVID-19 cases have been increasing in South Florida as a new subvariant rises, but are we better prepared? And a deeper look at the unanswered 911 calls throughout Broward County.

The judge overseeing the penalty trial of school shooter Nikolas Cruz reversed herself Wednesday and said she is not dismissing more than 200 potential jurors who survived a first round of screening earlier this month.

Nearly a dozen prematurely dismissed jurors were supposed to return to court Monday but didn't because of a miscommunication error.

The jury selection for Nikolas Cruz's sentencing trial remains underway. Plus, an affordable housing crisis was declared in Miami-Dade County and cut bonuses for public schools in Broward may bring legal action.

Judge Elizabeth Scherer dismissed a panel of 60 potential jurors on Monday after a number of them became visibly distraught at the prospect of deciding the fate of the confessed Parkland shooter.

Four years after he killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz goes on trial. He's already pleaded guilty and hopes to avoid the death penalty.

The sentencing trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz begins Monday, with the start of the jury selection process. There’s only two possible sentences: life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty.