White Supremacist Who Murdered Charlottesville Protester Avoids Death Penalty
This is the harshest penalty we should ever give, yet far better than the man deserves
Crime • March 2019 • Views: 2,365
On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. plowed his car into a crowd that was peacefully protesting the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., injuring 28 people and killing 32-year-old activist Heather Heyer.
Nearly two years later, Fields, the white supremacist who was convicted of murder in that deadly car attack on counter-protesters, pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crime charges on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to avoid the death penalty.