Alex Murdaugh found guilty in double murder trial

Alex Murdaugh cries as prosecutor Creighton Waters describes the murder of Murdaugh's wife and son during closing arguments in Murdaugh's double murder trial at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C., Wednesday, March 1, 2023. The 54-year-old attorney is standing trial on two counts of murder in the shootings of his wife and son at their Colleton County, S.C., home and hunting lodge on June 7, 2021. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP, Pool)

By Christopher Wilson,Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News

South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was found guilty on Thursday in the double murder trial that’s enraptured the nation.

Murdaugh, 54, was accused of murdering his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, who were found dead in June 2021 at the family’s hunting estate. Jurors deliberated for two hours and 50 minutes at the Colleton County Courthouse in Walterboro, S.C..

Earlier on Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Clifton Newman removed a juror for what he calledimproper conversations outside the courtroom. The verdict concludes a trial that began on Jan. 25.

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