Travis and Gregory McMichael Sentenced to Life with no Possibility of Parole over Killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Travis and Gregory McMichael have been sentenced in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

They both received life sentences without the possibility of parole. The neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan will serve thirty years in jail.

We previously reported about the guilty findings in this case a few weeks ago. CBS reported in part:

In emotional testimony, Arbery’s family asked for the defendants to receive the maximum punishment allowed.

“They each have no remorse and do not deserve any leniency,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother, told Walmsley. “This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity or mistaken fact. They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community. They chose to treat him differently than other people who frequently visited their community, and when they couldn’t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him.”

In our earlier story:

This is a breaking development that may be updated. Stay tuned.

Ian MacDonald

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