A US jury has recommended life in prison plus 419 years for a man convicted of murder for driving his car into counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally last year.
The jury makes its recommendation a day after listening to emotional statements from the mother of a woman who was killed and from numerous people who were injured. James Alex Fields Jr. plowed into the counter-protesters during a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
James Alex Fields Jr., accused of plowing a car into a crowd of people protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP, File)
The jury reached its sentencing verdict shortly before noon, after about four hours of deliberations over two days. Jurors also recommend 70 years for each of five malicious wounding charges, 20 for each of three malicious wounding charges, and nine years on one charge of leaving the scene of an accident.
On Friday, the same jury convicted Fields of first-degree murder and other felonies, rejecting his lawyers’ arguments that he had acted in self-defense.
— AP
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