they chose -- they chose to target my son, when they couldn't sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him. >> reporter: taking aim at a defense attorney's comments during the trial. >> his long, dirty toenails. >> reporter: about her son's toenails. >> i wish he would have cut and cleaned his toenails before he went out for that jog that day. i guess he would have if he knew he would be murdered. >> reporter: arbery's family was clear, they wanted the maximum sentence possible. >> my family, we got to live with his death the rest of our life. we will never see ahmaud again. so, i feel they should stay behind them bars the arrest of they life because they didn't give him a chance. >> the loss of ahmaud has devastated me and my family. so i am asking the men that killed him be given the maximum sentence available to the