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July 17, 2019

Judge Sentences Charlottesville Neo-Nazi Murderer to 2 More Life Sentences
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A Virginia state judge sentenced James Fields to "life in prison plus
419 years" for plowing his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in
Charlottesville at a counterprotest of the white supremacist "Unite the
Right" rally in 2017. He killed 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer in
the attack. This comes on top of last month's sentence of life in prison
on federal hate crime charges for the 22-year-old self-described
neo-Nazi. The judge in Fields' state case told him, "[Y]ou deserve the
sentence the jury gave. What you did was an act of terror."


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