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The Murdoch double murder trial came to an end yesterday with a guilty verdict by the

jury of 12 guilty on all counts, two counts of murder, two counts of related weapons

charges. And the verdict came less than three hours after the deliberations began.

Alec Murdoch appeared in front of Collatin County judge Clifton Newman earlier today

for his sentencing at that sentencing hearing he once again maintained his innocence.

Murdoch was sentenced by the judge to life in prison for each of those murder charges

for his wife Maggie and his son Paul.

No sentences will run consecutively. The basic gist of it is he's not getting at him jail.

This is it. The defense is expected to hold a presser any moment now and we will keep

our eyes and ears open for that and bring you the updates as they come in. You know,

I've been thinking about it last night you get the words of the verdicts coming and of

course you're like oh my god the verdict verdicts in American legal history are just they

tend to be gripping our legal system is by far the best that exists on earth by far.

We've done so much to try to make it fair for the defendants because the process is

so weighted in favor of the state. And therefore it sets up conflict it sets up drama it sets

up you know putting one's fate in the hand of 12 strangers which in and of itself is

so much dramatic and you know gripping. But I think this case is really captured the

attention of the nation in a special way. So why is that I've been asking myself that

why has this case so gripped the nation this one in particular because we've seen murder

cases before even of a husband killing a family member. But I believe this one is different.

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