A 12-member jury has voted not to give the death penalty to the gunman responsible for the Parkland shooting
The jury recommended life imprisonment without a chance of parole
Nikolas Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February 2018
Families of the victims are sharing their devastation that he has been spared the death penalty
The father of Alyssa Alhadeff, who died in the shooting, said: "I'm disgusted with our legal system, with those jurors"
It is the deadliest mass shooting to reach a jury trial in the US
The massacre sparked a wave of anti-gun protests around the US as well as the March for Our Lives movement
Edited by Marianna Brady
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A Florida jury has reached a verdict on the gunman facing the death penalty for the 2018 Parkland massacre - the deadliest US school shooting to go to trial.
The jury will announce their verdict within the hour.
We’ll be bringing you live updates here.