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Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, a former attorney in South Carolina, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole on Friday, a day after he was <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/jury-finds-alex-murdaugh-guilty-in-south-carolina-murder-trial_5094587.html">found guilty</a> of killing his wife and son on their family estate in 2021.

Prosecutors said Murdaugh's 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, were killed at close range near the dog kennels on their family estate on the evening of June 7, 2021.

Before Judge Clifton Newman began sentencing proceedings, Murdaugh maintained that he was innocent when being offered the opportunity to make a final appeal.

"I respect this court, but I'm innocent," Murdaugh <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=762322255411201">said</a>. "I would never, under any circumstances, hurt my wife Maggie and I would never ... hurt my son Paw Paw," referencing his son by his nickname.

Newman responded that "it might not have been you," adding that it "might have been the monster" Murdaugh had become after a years-long addiction to opioids.

"When you take 15, 20, 30, 40, 60, opioid pills, maybe you become another person, I've seen that before," Newman said. "The person standing before me was not the person who committed the crime, though it's the same individual."

Throughout the trial, prosecutors sought to portray Murdaugh as a serial liar and argued that only he had the means and the opportunity to commit the murders. They said he gunned down his wife and son to distract from a litany of financial crimes, including the theft of millions of dollars from his law partners and clients—money used to feed a years-long addiction to opioids and support an expensive lifestyle.

Friday's sentencing hearing closes a six-week trial and one of the most high-profile criminal cases in the history of South Carolina.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters said none of the victims of the crime—members of Murdaugh's family and the parents and relatives of his wife—wished to speak on behalf of the prosecution before sentencing.

"The depravity, the callousness, the selfishness of these crimes are stunning. The lack of remorse and the effortless way in which he is, including here, sitting right over there in this witness stand—your honor, a man like that, a man like this man, should never be allowed to be among free, law-abiding citizens," Waters said.

Alex Murdaugh is led to the Colleton County Courthouse by sheriff's deputies for sentencing in Walterboro, S.C., on March 3, 2023. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool)


<h2>Key Evidence</h2>
The juror agreed with prosecutors that the key piece of evidence was a video locked on his son's cellphone for a year—video shot minutes before the killings at the same kennels near where the bodies would be found.

The voices of all three Murdaughs can be heard on the video, though Alex Murdaugh had insisted for 20 months that he hadn't been at the kennels that night. When he took the stand in his own defense, the first thing he did was admit he had lied to investigators about being at the kennels, saying he was paranoid of law enforcement because he was an opioid addict with pills in his pocket the night of the killings.

Juror Craig Moyer <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/murdaugh-juror-cellphone-video-sealed-disgraced-attorneys-fate/story?id=97602896">told ABC News</a> that he became convinced of Murdaugh's guilt once he saw the clip placing him at the scene minutes before the murders.

"I was certain it was [Murdaugh’s] voice," Moyer said.

In his alibi, Murdaugh claimed that he was visiting his mother in Almeda around 9 p.m. and, when he returned to the house, found his wife and son’s dead bodies, and called 911 thereafter.

Prosecutors didn't have the weapons used to kill the Murdaughs or other direct evidence like confessions or blood spatter. But they had a mountain of circumstantial evidence, including the video putting Murdaugh at the scene of the killings five minutes before his wife and son stopped using their cellphones forever.

<em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.</em>

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