Man sentenced to life plus 419 years on hate crime charges in US
An avowed white supremacist was sentenced to life plus 419 years on federal hate crime charges Monday for deliberately driving his car into anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia.
James Alex Fields Jr, 22, received the sentence for killing one person and injuring dozens during the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017.
Last month, Fields received a life sentence on 29 federal hate crime charges.
Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Richard Moore followed a state jury's recommendation in handing down the sentence. Under state law, he was allowed to go lower than the recommendation, but not higher.
"Mr Fields, you had choices. We all have choices," Moore said. "You made the wrong ones and you caused great harm. ... You caused harm around the globe when people saw what you did."
The state sentence is mainly symbolic given his previous sentence on the federal charges.
"For his purposes, he has one life to give, so this is a largely ...