Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers sentenced to life in prison for federal hate crime – By Guardian staff and agencies (The Guardian) / Aug 8, 2022
Travis and Greg McMichael were also sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for the murder
The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting after they chased him through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
Travis McMichael, 36, and Greg McMichael, 66, received their sentences from US district court judge Lisa Godbey Wood in the port city of Brunswick. The punishment is largely symbolic – the McMichaels were sentenced earlier this year to life without parole in a Georgia state court for 25-year-old Arbery’s murder.
Wood said the pair had received a “fair trial”.
“And it’s not lost on the court that it was the kind of trial that Ahmaud Arbery did not receive before he was shot and killed,” the judge said.
