Disgraced ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh faces sentencing for murders

Disgraced erstwhile lawyer Alex Murdaugh is acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected Friday, a time aft a assemblage recovered him blameworthy of murdering his woman and son.

The assemblage deliberated for little than 3 hours earlier convicting Murdaugh, 54, of 2 counts of execution aft a six-week trial.

His sentencing proceeding successful Walterboro, South Carolina, starts astatine 0930 section clip (1430 GMT).

Murdaugh faces a minimum of 30 years successful situation for each execution charge.

Prosecutors are seeking beingness successful situation without parole for the erstwhile idiosyncratic wounded attorney.

Murdaugh's wife, Maggie, 52, and lad Paul, 22, were changeable astatine adjacent scope connected their household property connected 7 June 2021.

The high-profile lawsuit captured nationalist attraction and featured allegations of corruption, cause maltreatment and a failed hitman termination plot.

Murdaugh had pleaded not blameworthy successful the execution case.

He is besides accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients and colleagues, and admitted to committing wide-scale theft during the execution trial.

Prosecutors had alleged Murdaugh murdered his household members successful an effort to summation sympathy and stave disconnected a reckoning implicit his fiscal crimes.