Parkland Shooter Nicholas Cruz Spared the Death Penalty

• 43:36Young people making persuasive cases for their own death and having courts find the arguments compelling is a strange policy.
• 43:53Tim discusses lethal injection pods and notes that allowing very young people to make their own death cases doesn't seem like a good way to run a society.
• 44:08Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland school shooter who killed 17 people, was spared the death penalty and will serve life in prison.
• 44:41Tim notes the contradiction: a diabetic 23-year-old with one eye was allowed to end his life, but Cruz won't face execution despite killing 17 people.
• 45:06Cruz pleaded guilty a year ago to murdering 14 students and two adults during the three-month trial featuring graphic videos and massacre footage.
• 45:30Tim acknowledges the death penalty is a tough issue, but everyone knows Cruz is guilty and people want closure.
• 45:41You can't get angry at victims' families for wanting the shooter to die after what happened to their children.
• 45:52Tim wonders what the jury deliberation process was like and suspects religious jurors may have voted against execution.

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