In a current publish on Orlando Weekly’s net web page, one of many weblog’s writers lamented Governor Ron DeSantis’ frustrations with Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’ lenient sentencing. Cruz murdered 17 harmless individuals at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Excessive College in 2018. The then 19-year-old Cruz entered the constructing with a semi-automatic rifle and went on a rampage.
Cruz pled responsible to the costs of homicide in opposition to him final yr though the jury did not sentence him to loss of life, a call Governor DeSantis lately expressed dismay with: “This killer’s going to finish up getting the identical sentence as individuals who’ve dedicated dangerous acts, however acts that didn’t rise to this stage,” he stated. “I simply do not assume the rest is suitable besides a capital sentence on this case. So, I used to be very upset to see that.”
“You’d assume this might trigger a little bit of cognitive dissonance within the governor. In spite of everything, our total justice system is supposed to be constructed on an equal assembly between adversaries (sometimes a citizen and the state),” the Weekly’s Alex Galbraith wrote. “The winner is supposed to be determined by a jury of friends, made up by definition by the defendant’s fellow residents. The choice within the case in opposition to mass shooter Nikolas Cruz led to DeSantis to query the need of juries.”
Nevertheless, Orlando Weekly’s treatment of the Kyle Rittenhouse story paints an image of hypocrisy, tacitly criticizing the jury’s verdict in that case, conduct that the publication lashed out at DeSantis for participating in.
It isn’t secret the Weekly stays a extremely liberal publication. However it’s their propensity to spew half truths and fallacious materials that causes a lot of the Orlando neighborhood to chorus from selecting up their faltering print circulation round city.
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