South Carolina Supreme Court overturns Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions

The former South Carolina attorney still faces decades in prison for financial crimes.

He pleaded guilty to stealing around $12 million from his clients and currently is serving a 40-year federal sentence.

Murdaugh will remain in prison on separate federal financial crime convictions, but prosecutors must now decide whether and how to retry the case.

The disgraced South Carolina lawyer had been serving two consecutive life sentences without parole after being convicted of killing his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, in 2021.