The South Carolina attorney general said that prosecutors may pursue the death penalty in the retrial of Alex Murdaugh, whose murder conviction in the death of his wife and son was overturned. The state’s high court reversed Murdaugh’s double murder conviction in an opinion published that accused a former court clerk of “egregious” jury interference.
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