Florida high school shooter's penalty trial set to begin On Monday, July 18, 2022 relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
On Monday, July 18, 2022 relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
Relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex, Monday, July 18, 2022, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
Relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex, Monday, July 18, 2022, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
Relatives and family members exit the courtroom for recess on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex, Monday, July 18, 2022, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
Relatives and family members enter the courtroom after recess on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex, Monday, July 18, 2022, in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
FILE - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during jury selection in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury. Opening statements are scheduled Monday, July 15, in Cruz's penalty trial.(Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)
FILE - Judge Elizabeth Scherer presides over a hearing to set a date to determine when the trial in the case of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz can begin at the Broward County Courthouse, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury. Opening statements are scheduled Monday, July 18, 2022, in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial. (Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)
FILE - Suzanne Devine Clark, an art teacher at Deerfield Beach Elementary School, places painted stones at a memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the one-year anniversary of the school shooting, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Parkland, Fla. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury. Opening statements are scheduled Monday, July 18, 2022, in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
On Monday, July 18, 2022 relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)
FILE - People comfort each other as they sit and mourn at one of seventeen crosses, Feb. 15, 2018, after a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury. Opening statements are scheduled Monday, July 18, 2022, in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE - Fred Guttenberg, the father of slain student Jaime Guttenberg, wipes his eyes as Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021, at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history ever to make it to trial is finally about to go before a jury. Opening statements are scheduled Monday, July 18, 2022, in Nikolas Cruz's penalty trial. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)
On Monday, July 18, 2022 relatives and family members arrive on the first day of the sentencing trial for convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Judicial Complex in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Carl Juste/Miami Herald via AP, Pool)