Everything you need to know about Alex Murdaugh's sentencing.
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While Alex denies responsibility for the killings or the other charges lobbied against him, he did admit to lying when he was on the stand."I didn’t shoot my wife or my son any time -- ever,” he said, while thethat he blamed paranoia fueled by his painkiller addiction for not disclosing the truth of his whereabouts the night of Maggie and Paul's deaths."Once I told a lie -- then I told my family -- I had to keep lying.
As for why this case riveted the nation, Buckmire said,"Probably most people have never seen a case where someone's charged with the murder of their wife and son with, as the prosecution put it, a motive to clear up financial crimes of 19 indictments and 99 charges, where you can do centuries in jail."
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