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
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 gallagher is here outside of the courthouse in walterboro, south carolina. diane, it was really the last just 24 hours here very astonishing moments inside of that courtroom, led this morning by the judge himself. reporter: abby, i don t know if people exhaled out here outside of the courthouse watching until judge clifton newman finished speaking directly to alex murdaugh who answered him when was asked questions, but mostly because he has to just sat there and listened. it was a dressing down like i have never seen, going through the family history of the