YES! HE GOT LIFE! You can't bring those people back, but I hope their families and friends can feel closure from this.
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'A white supremacist who triggered racial tensions throughout the nation when he rammed his car into counter-protesters of a “Unite the Right” rally in Virginia will ask a federal judge for mercy Friday at a sentencing for his hate crimes.
Lawyers for James Alex Fields Jr., 22, a self-avowed neo-Nazi who occasionally adorned his text messages with photos of Adolf Hitler, said in recent court filings that "no individual is wholly defined by their worst moments" and that Fields should not be sentenced to life in prison.
“No amount of punishment imposed on James can repair the damage he caused to dozens of innocent people. But this Court should find that retribution has limits,” Fields' lawyers wrote. "The essential property of mercy is that it applies to the undeserving."
But prosecutors will say at Friday's 9 a.m. hearing in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville that he deserves life in prison. He was convicted of murder in state court in December; those charges are separate from the federal hate crime charges he is being sentenced for on Friday.
"Life imprisonment is the only appropriate sentence for the defendant," federal prosecutors said in a sentencing memorandum.
Fields plowed his car into the crowd of peaceful counter-protesters on Aug. 12, 2017, killing Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old paralegal and activist, and injuring dozens of others.
Heyer's mother, Susan Bro, told USA TODAY that she is glad a conclusion is coming.' - more from USA TODAY
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