She argued for a sentence of life without parole, assuring them he will never walk free again. McNeill said neither Cruz nor herself has ever denied what he did and that “he knew right from wrong and he chose wrong.” But she said the former Stoneman Douglas student is “a broken, brain-damaged, mentally ill young man,” doomed from conception by the heavy drinking and drug use of his birth mother during pregnancy. The killings, he said, “were unrelentlessly heinous, atrocious and cruel.” “It is said that what one writes and says is a window into their soul,” Satz said as the three-month trial neared its conclusion. I am going to kill a … ton of people and children.”
Satz pointed to Cruz’s internet writings and videos, where he talked about his murderous desires such as when he wrote, “No mercy, no questions, double tap.
