Travis and Greg McMichael were also sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for the murder
The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting after they chased him through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
The McMichaels were among three defendants convicted in February of federal hate crime charges. Their neighbor, 52-year-old William “Roddie” Bryan, had sentencing hearings scheduled later on Monday. Arbery’s killing on 23 February 2020 became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice and killings of unarmed Black people, including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. Those two cases also resulted in the US justice department bringing federal charges.
A state superior court judge had already imposed life sentences for all three men in January for Arbery’s murder, with both McMichaels denied any chance of parole. In a court filings last week, both Travis and Greg McMichael asked the judge to instead divert them to a federal prison, saying they won’t be safe in a Georgia prison system that’s the subject of a US justice department investigation focused on violence between inmates.
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