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White supremacist sentenced to life in prison for deadly racist attack at Texas Walmart

  • Patrick Crusius pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for killing 23 people in a 2019 mass shooting targeting Hispanic shoppers.
  • Crusius received 90 consecutive life sentences but still faces state charges that could result in the death penalty.
  • Victims' relatives confronted Crusius in emotional court hearings, expressing grief, pain, anger and a desire for justice.
  • The attack is one of the deadliest hate crimes in recent US history and a symbol of the threat of white nationalism and anti-immigrant extremism.
  • Crusius drove over 700 miles to attack Hispanic shoppers in El Paso, a city on the US-Mexico border with a majority Hispanic population.
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