Jurors Who Convicted Alex Murdaugh Go Inside Deliberations: ‘If You’re Not Sure, We Will Not Leave This Room’

Mar. 15, 2025

Alex Murdaugh on Nov. 28, 2023.Photo:Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP,

Andrew J. Whitaker/The Post And Courier via AP,

Jurors who founddisgraced lawyer Alex Murdaughguilty of murdering his wife and son are speaking out for the first time since his appeal for a new trial was denied.

In an exclusive clip ofThe Fall of the House of Murdaugh, FOX Nation’s Martha MacCallum interviews jurors about the deliberations during the double-murder trial. One of the jurors revealed it only took two rounds of voting for the jurors to come to aunanimous guilty verdict.

“The first time, the foreperson just wanted to see where we were, we had no idea who voted what,” one juror said during the clip. “We wrote it down on a piece of paper.”

The juror then revealed that after the first vote, nine jurors voted guilty, two voted not guilty and one was unsure. Then the jurors began asking questions about the trial and took a second look at the evidence. During the next vote, all of the jurors agreed on a guilty verdict, the jurors told MacCallum.

“When all of the questions were answered and nobody else had a question, then we voted again — and when we voted again, it was guilty,” the juror states in the clip. “But [the foreperson] still made it clear, if you’re not sure, we will not leave this room, but everybody said, ‘We’re sure.'” (An exclusive clip is shown below.)

Last March,Murdaugh was found guiltyof the 2021 murders of his wife, Margaret “Maggie” Murdaugh, 52, and youngest son, Paul Murdaugh, 22. Jurors deliberated for less than three hours before delivering the guilty verdicts. Murdaugh wassentenced to two life sentencesin prison.

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Maggie and Paul Murdaugh.Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Maggie Murdaugh/ Facebook

Toal added that in the double-murder trial, “the evidence was overwhelming and the jury verdict not surprising.”

source: people.com