Fields Jr. can still be sentenced to death by a federal hate crime court. However, according to the "message", the United States Department of Justice has not yet announced whether it will apply for the death penalty.
In addition to the death of Heyer, the neo-Nazi man would have been convicted of five counts of serious bodily harm, another three of minor injuries and a hit and run.
When the verdict was released late Friday afternoon (7), the jury rejected the defendants' arguments that they acted in self-defense.
White supremacists in conflict with an anti-fascist group in Charlottesville
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Prosecutors said Fields drove his car straight into the crowd at the close apparently "Unite the Right" in Charlottesville. Photo: Reuters
Charlottesville on August 12, 2017 because he was angry after witnessing violent clashes between the two parties.
The nationalist demonstration protested the plan to remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
General Lee was the commander of the forces of the Confederate States of America, the union of six southern separatist states. during the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Confederate States of South America have called for independence to prevent the abolition of slavery.
Even after the final defeat in the conflict, Lee became a symbol of American extremist movements, who still remember him as a hero. Therefore, moving the statue of Lee was considered an affront by these groups, who decided to protest.
The reaction of the supremacists provoked the indignation of the activist movements, which clashed in Charlottesville. In one of these confrontations, Fields made a clash.
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