Ahmaud Arbery's family has asked a judge to show no lenience in sentencing three white men convicted of murder for fatally shooting him.
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Ahmaud Arbery's family asked a judge to show no lenience Friday in sentencing three white men convicted of murder for chasing the running Black man in pickup trucks, cutting off his escape and fatally blasting him with a shotgun.
Murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison under Georgia law unless prosecutors seek the death penalty, which they opted against for Arbery's killing. For Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley, the main decision will be whether to grant father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William"Roddie" Bryan, an eventual chance to earn parole.
Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski asked the judge for life without parole for Travis and Greg McMichael and the possibility of parole for Bryan. But she said all deserved that mandatory life sentence for showing"no empathy for the trapped and terrified Ahmaud Arbery." "They are not evidence of a soul so blackened as to deserve to spend the rest of his life in prison," Rubin said."This was not a planned murder. This was a fight over a gun that led to Mr. Arbery's death."
All three men were also convicted of aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. Maximum prison terms for those counts range from five to 20 years. The judge was likely to allow those additional penalties to be served simultaneously with the life sentences for murder.
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