'A good liar. But not good enough.” South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, a day after he was convicted of murder in the shooting deaths of his wife and son. 9News
Judge Clifton Newman asked Murdaugh if he had anything he wanted to say before sentencing, and the lawyer maintained his innocence.
Prosecutor Creighton Waters said none of the victims of the crime — members of Murdaugh's family and the parents and relatives of his wife — wished to speak on behalf of the prosecution before sentencing."The depravity, the callousness, the selfishness of these crimes are stunning.
As Murdaugh stood before the judge to learn his fate, he was in the same courtroom on the circuit where his father, grandfather and great-grandfather tried cases as the elected prosecutor for more than 80 years. His grandfather's portrait hung in the back of the room until the judge ordered it taken down for the trial.
Alex Murdaugh stands in the courtroom at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Thursday, March 2, 2023.that when deliberations began, the jury immediately took a poll that came back with nine guilty votes. It didn't take long to convince the other three.
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