How a killer’s death sentence can bring new pain to families of victims.
Tag: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Parkland, Fla)
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After Parkland Massacre, Students Tackled Gun Violence Themselves
As the legal saga over the 2018 shooting in Florida heads to a close, survivors who plunged into activism have made a lasting imprint on the gun control movement.
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Parkland Trial Reveals Depths of Families’ Sorrow
The rare trial of a gunman in a mass shooting has underscored how massacres shatter families and communities over time.
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At Parkland Shooting Trial, Families Must Endure Grisly Evidence
The nature of a death-penalty trial requires documenting brutal crimes in painful detail, even when the defendant’s guilt has never been in doubt.
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After Parkland, One Question Remains: What Is Justice?
Four years after the Hoyers lost their youngest child in the Florida school shooting, a jury will decide whether the killer should get the death penalty. The Hoyers had to decide, too.