White supremacist who killed Heather Heyer given second life sentence and 419 years in prison

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The self-proclaimed neo-Nazi who killed a woman when he plowed his car into crowd of counter-protesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been given a second life sentence plus 419 years in prison.

James Fields Jr., 22, was already sentenced to life in prison on 29 federal charges, including a hate crime for the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer.

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