Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers have announced a $600,000 federal lawsuit against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, while also pushing back against any talk of a death penalty in a retrial.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said Friday that his office may pursue the death penalty when it retries Alex Murdaugh in the 2021 murder of his son and wife.“In light of the Supreme Court’s decision,

Prosecutors say they plan to retry disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh after the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned his murder convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son because the court clerk at his trial suggested he was guilty.

Alex Murdaugh was convicted of his killing his wife and his son at the family's home in 2021.

Don't trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer... I'll admit, I'm absolutely obsessed with the Alex Murdaugh case. His trial captivated the country back in 2023 when the (now-former) lawyer was convicted for killing his wife,

The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the murder conviction of Alex Murdaugh, who was accused of killing his wife and son in June 2021. In a unanimous ruling, South Carolina’s high court ordered a new trial due to jury tampering concerns involving the county clerk.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson addresses claims made by Alex Murdaugh’s defense attorneys and discusses the potential pursuit of the death penalty on ‘America Reports.’