pjmedia.com Editor’s note: After deliberating for less than three hours, a jury in S. Carolina found Alex Murdaugh guilty of murdering his wife and son in June 2021 on the family’s rural estate. Judge Clifton Newman said that “given the lateness of the hour and the victims’ rights that must be taken into consideration,” he would delay sentencing until a later date. Murdaugh faces a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison, but prosecutors have said they are seeking life without parole.
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The Alex Murdaugh murder trial has a tragic scope as vast as the downfall of any of Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedies. Not only did Alex Murdaugh fall from his luxurious heights to utter wreckage, but a powerful 100-year-old family dynasty was also destroyed.
The tragic Murdaugh tale represents the end of a Southern power structure in a rural corner of South Carolina. This power structure, as we shall see, is a relic from a time long ago, when family and race dictated circumstances as often as merit and ingenuity.
Like any Shakespearean tragedy, the Murdaugh tragedy has plenty of villains. The accused family annihilator Alex, the hothead violent Paul, Timmy, or Paw Paw, whatever you want to call him, is another. But so are the enablers in the Murdaugh family. The brother who removed guns from the house, or worked over the police after the boat accident. Or the disgraced plagiarist son Buster caught giving the finger to a witness during the trial.
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