The defense attorney for Parkland mass school shooter Nikolas Cruz urged the jury to spare his life, arguing that he was 'poisoned in the womb' from his biological mother's drinking and drug use during pregnancy and that 'his brain was irretrievably broken.'Lead public defender Melisa McNeill told jurors on Monday that 'there is no defense for this ' committed by Cruz - who killed 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day 2018 in Parkland, . But McNeill cited brain damage linked to fetal drug and exposure as reason not to impose the death penalty.
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