AMY BETH BENNETT
Gena Hoyer holds a prayer card with a photograph of her son, Luke, who was killed in the 2018 shootings, as she awaited the verdict in the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Oct. 13. The jury rejected the death penalty for Cruz, opting instead for life imprisonment without the chance of parole.

Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole.