的命运供认不讳的帕克兰枪手尼古拉·克鲁兹将很快掌握在陪审员手中，他们将决定克鲁兹是否会因实施马乔里·斯通曼·道格拉斯高中大屠杀而被判处死刑或终身监禁。
周二，在当时19岁的克鲁兹被枪杀四年多后，在处罚阶段的审判中进行了结案陈词他以前就读的佛罗里达高中的14名学生和3名工作人员。克鲁兹去年承认了17项一级谋杀罪和17项一级谋杀未遂罪。
在被杀儿童的父母的注视下，检察官迈克尔·萨茨周二表示，审判中提交的证词和证据揭示了2018年2月14日实施的“无法形容的、可怕的暴行和无情的残忍”。
Lori Alhadeff cries as Assistant State Attorney Mike Satz details the killings in his closing arguments in the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 11, 2022.
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“有人说，一个人写什么，说什么，是一个人灵魂的窗户，”萨茨在他的结案陈词中说。“被告在他的YouTube上写的一些评论是:‘没有怜悯，没有问题，双击。我会的...谋杀儿童...我希望看到这些家庭受苦。"
“他在提前考虑，”萨茨说，他“不仅想给受害者带来痛苦”，还“预见到这种痛苦、恐惧和死亡……将如何影响这些家庭。”
萨茨说，克鲁兹研究了以前的大规模枪击事件，并策划了一场“系统性屠杀”
萨茨讲述了克鲁兹的手机如何泄露了大屠杀三天前拍摄的一段视频，在视频中克鲁兹说:“我将成为下一个校园枪手……我的目标是杀死至少20人。”
“他想出名，”萨茨说。
萨茨强调了14岁的受害者吉娜·蒙塔尔托的四个枪伤中有两个是接触伤，这意味着克鲁兹的AR-15式步枪的末端“正好对着她的胸部和腹部。”
萨茨告诉陪审团，克鲁兹在YouTube上的一条评论是“我不介意向一个女孩的胸部开枪”，并补充道，“这正是他对吉娜·蒙塔尔托所做的。”
萨茨说，克鲁兹向12号楼的一楼开了70枪，密集的子弹促使二楼的学生和老师寻找掩体。
萨茨说，克鲁兹在二楼只开了六枪，因为他找不到任何目标。
萨茨说，克鲁兹在三楼开了61枪，包括射中地理老师斯科特·贝格尔的后背。这名35岁的男子在试图引导学生安全进入他的教室时丧生。
萨茨说，在三楼遇难的人中还有15岁的王蒙杰，他一共中了12枪。检察官说，当王受伤躺在地上时，克鲁兹朝他的头部开了四枪。
辩护律师梅利莎·麦克尼尔在结案陈词中强调，克鲁兹已经认罪。麦克尼尔承认克鲁兹对此负有责任，并策划了这场大屠杀。
克鲁兹“那天知道对与错的区别——但他选择了错，”她说。
但辩方辩称克鲁兹遭受了追溯到胎儿酒精谱系障碍的终生发育迟缓。
麦克尼尔在她的开场陈述中说，克鲁兹的生母是一个吸毒和酗酒的人，在克鲁兹出生前六周一直酗酒和吸毒。她说，克鲁兹“在子宫里就被毒死了”，他的“大脑被彻底打碎了”。
麦克尼尔指出，布劳沃德县学校董事会将克鲁兹归类为“各方面发育迟缓”，并表示他有“语言障碍”。她说，学区将他归类为“ESE”学生，或特殊需要儿童。
萨茨在结案陈词中反驳说，医生的证词证明克鲁兹没有精神疾病，而是反社会人格。萨茨说，克鲁兹的养母带他去看了很多医生和治疗师，并补充说克鲁兹“有行为能力——只是他没有。”
麦克尼尔周二辩称，检察官试图“非人化”克鲁兹。
“他们的所作所为被贴上标签，说他只是有人格障碍...“但这并不能描述尼古拉的所有行为，”她说称某人反社会……比接受尼古拉斯·克鲁兹的真实面目更容易:一个破碎的、大脑受损的、患有精神疾病的年轻人。我们会杀脑残、精神病、精神崩溃的人吗?"
“他应该受到惩罚，”麦克尼尔说，并补充说，“判处尼古拉死刑绝对不会改变什么。这不会让他恶毒杀害的17名无辜受害者复活。”
陪审团对死刑的裁决必须是一致的。
“你将要做出的关于尼古拉是死是活的个人道德决定，不应该在情绪激动的情况下做出，”她告诉陪审员们。“请不要觉得有达成裁决的压力——慢慢来...你必须仔细考虑和权衡证据，意识到...你真的拿另一个人的生命冒险。”
14岁的受害者杰米·古滕贝格的父亲弗雷德·古滕贝格周二早上在推特上说，他希望审判“将在本周结束。”
他说:“这场审判对我们来说比你想象的更艰难，我们已经做好了准备。”
Closing arguments conclude, jury to decide Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's fate
The fate ofconfessed Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruzwill soon be in the hands of the jurors who will determine if Cruz will be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison for carrying out the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Closing arguments in the penalty phase trial were held Tuesday, more than four years after Cruz, then 19, gunned down14 students and three staff members at his former Florida high school.Cruz pleaded guilty last year to 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder.
As parents of the slain children looked on, prosecutor Michael Satz said Tuesday that the testimony and evidence presented at the trial revealed the "unspeakable, horrific brutality and the unrelentless cruelty" carried out on Feb. 14, 2018.
"It's been said that what one writes, and what one says, is a window to someone's soul," Satz said in his closing argument. "Some of the remarks the defendant wrote on his YouTube were: 'No mercy, no questions, double tap. I'm going to...murder children...I'd love to see the families suffer.'"
"He's thinking ahead," Satz said, by "not only looking to inflict pain" on the victim, but also "anticipating how that pain, fear and death…is gonna affect the families."
Cruz researched previous mass shootings, Satz said, and planned a "systematic massacre."
Satz recounted how Cruz's phone revealed a video filmed three days before the carnage, in which Cruz said: "I'm going to be the next school shooter…my goal is to kill at least 20 people."
"He wanted to be known," Satz said.
Satz highlighted how two of the four gunshot wounds to 14-year-old victim Gina Montalto were contact wounds, meaning the end of Cruz's AR-15-style rifle "was right up against her chest and right up on her abdomen."
Satz told the jury that one of Cruz's YouTube comments was "I don't mind shooting a girl in the chest," adding, "that's exactly what he did to Gina Montalto."
Cruz fired 70 shots on Building 12's first floor, Satz said, and the barrage of bullets prompted students and teachers on the second floor to take cover.
Cruz fired just six shots on the second floor, because he couldn't find any targets, Satz said.
Cruz fired 61 rounds on the third floor, Satz said, including into the back of geography teacher Scott Beigel. The 35-year-old died trying to shepherd students to safety into his classroom.
Also among those killed on the third floor was 15-year-old Peter Wang, who was shot a total of 12 times, Satz said. While Wang was lying on the ground injured, Cruz shot him in the head four times, the prosecutor said.
Defense attorney Melisa McNeill stressed in her closing argument that Cruz already pled guilty. McNeill admitted Cruz was responsible and planned the massacre.
Cruz "knew the difference between right and wrong that day -- and he chose wrong," she said.
But the defense argued Cruz sufferedlifelong developmental delays that traced back to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Cruz's birth mother was a drug and alcohol addict who drank and used drugs up until six weeks before Cruz was born, McNeill said in her opening argument. Cruz was "poisoned in the womb" and his "brain was irretrievably broken," she said.
The Broward County School Board classified Cruz as "developmentally delayed in all areas" and said he had "a language impairment," McNeill noted. The district classified him as an "ESE" student, or a special needs child, she said.
Satz countered in his closing argument, saying that doctor testimony proved Cruz doesn't have a mental disease, but an antisocial personality. Cruz's adoptive mother took him to multiple doctors and therapists, Satz said, adding that Cruz "had the ability to behave -- he just didn't."
McNeill argued Tuesday that prosecutors tried to "dehumanize" Cruz.
"What they have done is slapped on a label that says he only has a personality disorder... but that doesn't describe all of Nikolas' behavior," she said. "It's easier to call someone antisocial…than to accept what Nikolas Cruz really is: a broken, brain-damaged, mentally ill young man. Do we kill brain-damaged, mentally ill, broken people?"
"He deserves to be punished," McNeill said, adding, "Sentencing Nikolas to death will change absolutely nothing. It will not bring back those 17 innocent victims that he viciously murdered."
The jury's decision must be unanimous for the death penalty.
"The individual, moral decision that you will be making about whether Nikolas should live or die is not a decision that should be made in an emotional state," she told the jurors. "Please don't ever feel pressured to reach a verdict -- take your time...You must carefully consider and weigh the evidence, realizing...that you literally have another human being's life at stake."
Fred Guttenberg, father of 14-year-old victim Jaime Guttenberg, tweeted Tuesday morning that he hopes the trial "will conclude this week."
"This trial has been harder on us than you could imagine, and we are ready to have this in our rear view," he said.
