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Jurgen Schmieder, Los Angeles
Life imprisonment with no chance of parole. This is the sentence for American lawyer Alex Murdaugh on Friday morning. This process took six weeks. Shocking new details about Murdaugh’s life continued to emerge. In the end, after three hours of deliberation, the jury was certain: Murdaugh murdered wife Maggie and son Paul at the family’s vacation home in the US state of South Carolina in June 2021. “You may believe it wasn’t you,” said Judge Clifton Newman, who announced the sentence after less than 24 hours of deliberation: “It may have been the monster that you saw after 40, 50 , 60 opium pills have become.”