washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the retsst of your natural life. judge clifton newman notably getting very personal before handing down that sentence, talking about knowing alex murdaugh and his family and that alex was a well-respected and gregorius person, but the judge also made it clear that he agreed with that guilty verdict handed out by the jury. he accused murdaugh of duplicitous conduct in the courtroom and on the witness stand and he said the lies finally caught up with him. cnn s dianne galla
murdaughs, letting alex know that he had to remove that portrait of alex murdaugh s grandfather from that very courtroom where he was just convicted of murder so that he could have a fair trial, letting him know about the power his family has and trying to understand how he could do something like this. you know, judge clifton newman handed down those consecutive life sentences to alex murdaugh while expressing disappointment and bee winderment. abby, he is an extremely respected judge in south carolina, he has had a very measured tone throughout the past six weeks, but he went for it with alex today, telling him that he knows that he has got to feel something when he closes his eyes at night. and i know you have to see paul and maggie during the nighttime when you re attempting to go to sleep. i m sure they come and visit