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washington. disgraced south carolina lawyer and now convicted killer alex murdaugh will spend the rest of his life in prison. a judge handing down that sentence this morning after a jury needed less than three hours to find murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife, maggie, and his son, paul. in the murder of your wife, maggie murdaugh, i sentence you for a term of the rest of your natural life. for the murder of paul murdaugh, whom you probably loved so much, i sentence you to prison for murdering him for the retsst of your natural life. judge clifton newman notably getting very personal before handing down that sentence, talking about knowing alex murdaugh and his family and that alex was a well-respected and gregorius person, but the judge also made it clear that he agreed with that guilty verdict handed out by the jury. he accused murdaugh of duplicitous conduct in the courtroom and on the witness stand and he said the lies finally caught up with him. cnn s dianne ....
You. i m sure. all day and every night. yeah, i m sure. and they will continue to do so and reflect on the last time they looked you in the eyes, as you looked the jury in the eyes. reporter: and there was so much discussion about that. you know, this trial likely ended the way, abby, that it only could, which was with alex murdaugh, not his attorneys, addressing the court in that plea before the sentencing. just like he took the stand in his own defense to try to explain why his voice was identified by so many people on that video found on his murdered son paul s phone, six months after he was killed, but it was recorded moments before. they say paul was murdered at those dog kennels, calling for their dog bubba who had a chicken in his mouth. ....