![]() Reutersīefore the trial started in January, a portrait of Murdaugh’s late grandfather, Randolph “Buster” Murdaugh Jr., was removed from the courtroom, Newman said, explaining that he did not want it to affect the jury. Judge Clifton Newman sentenced Murdaugh to two consecutive life sentences. “As I sit here in this courtroom and look at the portraits of many judges and court officials … your family, including you, have been prosecuting people in this courtroom and many have received the death penalty, probably for lesser conduct,” he said. While Newman, 71, said he understood the state’s decision not to pursue the death penalty, he commented on the weight of Murdaugh’s conviction and sentence in light of his family’s historic influence in the Low Country courts. Murdaugh, who was stone-faced in court, continued to deny his guilt and told the unimpressed judge he would “never hurt” his wife and son. Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murder on Thursday night. The judge’s measured but unpitying address to Murdaugh was underscored by the death of Newman’s own son, former Columbia Councilman Brian DeQuincey Newman, on Jan. Murdaugh was found guilty on Thursday night of callously gunning down wife Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, in cold-blooded executions at the family’s estate on June, 7, 2021.ĭuring the trial, the court heard extremely graphic testimony about how Maggie had been shot five times, twice in the head, and Paul had been blasted with a shotgun, exploding his skull and splattering brain all over the dog kennels. ![]() “All day and every night,” the fallen patriarch, 54, admitted at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro. Lawyers reject hit-and-run determination in death of Murdaugh-linked Stephen Smith, call for new probeĭisgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh admitted he is haunted by the memory of the wife and son he murdered as he was given two life sentences Friday morning.īefore reading the sentence, Judge Clifton Newman said to Murdaugh: “I know you have to see Paul and Maggie during the nighttime when you’re attempting to go to sleep … and reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes.” ![]() Murdaugh family’s tortoise shell lamps, snake print pillows among personal items to be auctioned off Thursday ![]() Buster Murdaugh on cops’ ‘radar’ after Stephen Smith death: police reportsĭeath of Murdaugh-linked teen Stephen Smith in 2015 now considered a homicide
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