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A jury will decide if the Parkland gunman gets the death penalty

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.
Flowers, candles and mementos sit outside one of the makeshift memorials at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 27, 2018. Monday, the sentencing trial begins for the gunman who killed 17 people and injured 17 others more than four years ago.

More than four years after killing 17 people and wounding 17 others at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Nikolas Cruz goes on trial Monday.

The troubled, former student has already pleaded guilty to all charges. Jurors will decide whether he receives life in prison or the death penalty. Jury selection, beginning Monday, is expected to take weeks, but when arguments begin, the prosecution will take jurors through events that will likely already be familiar to them.

It's expected to be an intense, emotional trial. If the defense finds it too difficult to seat an impartial jury in Broward County, attorneys may

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