Families tell the BBC they believed until the last minute their children's killer would be executed.
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For victims' families, who had hoped the decision would resemble some form of reconciliation over the brutal attack, the decision has left them aghast.His daughter Alyssa, 14, died in the attack along with 13 other children and three educators. A first-year student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she had dreamed of one day playing on the US women's national football team.
In the months and years since, lawmakers at the state and national level have passed modest reforms but have steered clear of more ambitious proposals.Many of them have sat in court every day since the trial began more than three months ago, reliving in visceral detail - often through video and audio - how the attack happened.
When the judge read the verdict aloud, many observers were confused about what the result was because of the complex legal language. But the Hoyers knew exactly what she was saying. Prosecutors had explained to them what to listen for. "Our justice system should have been used to punish this shooter to the fullest extent of the law," said Tony Montalto, who lost his 14-year-old daughter Gina in the shooting.
The elder Hixon - the athletics director at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and a former US Navy reservist who once deployed to Iraq - died after running towards the gunfire in an effort to shield students. But this was the deadliest shooting ever to go to trial. That's because most attackers are either killed by law enforcement in the course of their rampage or take their own lives in its immediate aftermath.
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