Washington, Mar 3 (EFE).- The American lawyer Alex Murdaugh was sentenced to life imprisonment this Friday for killing his wife and son, ending a trial that has lasted six weeks and has caused a great media uproar in USA.
The popular lawyer, 54, was found guilty on Thursday of shooting, in 2021, his wife, Maggie (52 years old), and their youngest son, Paul (22 years old), at their home, located in an area rural state of South Carolinawhere the Murdaugh family enjoyed great influence.
The prosecution argued that Murdaugh committed the crime in order to prevent his numerous cases of embezzlement and money laundering from coming to light.
Murdaugh himself acknowledged during the trial that he had lied to the police about his whereabouts on the night of the crime, but assured that it was due to paranoia caused by drug use, and tearfully denied having shot his family.
The minimum penalty for murder in South Carolina, where the trial took place, is 30 years in prison and the maximum is life in prison.
Both the woman and the lawyer’s son were shot several times with a rifle and a shotgun, although the weapons of the crime have not been found, nor have blood stains or other types of physical evidence.
What was found was a video recorded by Paul Murdaugh shortly before he died where the voices of both parents are heard, destroying the initial alibi of the lawyer, who claimed not to be in the house at the time of the crime.
When he was charged with the murder of his two relatives, Murdaugh was already in prison, awaiting trial on a hundred charges related to his business as a lawyer. EFE
