FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — This trial starts in what is typically the second phase of a capital case. That is because guilt was established in October when confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz ...
In sentencing guilty defendants, jurors and judges weigh 'mitigating circumstances', which create sympathy for a defendant. Here we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural activity ...
Considerations that are of a broader nature, such as circumstances intrinsic to armed conflicts in general, have been repeatedly rejected as mitigating factors.As explained by the Appeals Chamber of ...