James Fields has been sentenced to life in prison for ramming his car into a group of anti-racism protesters (Picture: AP)

A notorious white supremacist murderer who moaned he was too young to get life in jail has been jailed for life.

James Fields, 22, was sentenced to die in jail Friday for driving his car into a group of anti racism protesters in Charlottesville, West Virginia, in August 2017.

His rampage killed Heather Heather Heyer, 32, and injured two dozen more.

Fields pleaded guilty to 29 federal hate crimes in March in a deal with prosecutors to eliminate the death penalty as a possibility.


His lawyers asked for mercy for their client during the sentencing phase of the trial and said Fields’ age, ‘traumatic’ childhood, and history of mental illness as reasons why he should have been spared life behind bars.

Heather Heyer was killed in the August, 12, 2017 attack in Charlottesville, North Carolina (Picture: AP)

But that plea fell on deaf ears Friday. After hearing statements from 20 of Fields’ victims, Judge Michael Urbanski sentenced Fields to life in jail without the possibility of parole.



Two victims said they wished Fields would be executed.

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Heather Heyer’s mother, Susan Bro, testified last and said: ‘I’d like to see him find meds to help his mind to heal. I don’t know if Mr. Fields can ever be trusted in society. I hope he can heal someday and help others heal, too.’

On Thursday, Bro told CNN: ‘I know that he had a difficult childhood. I know that he has mental health issues. But I’ve known lots of people with those same issues who did not commit murder.’

He is due to be sentenced next month by a jury for first-degree murder. Friday’s sentencing was just for his federal hate crimes.

James Alex Fields Jr., left, holds a black shield in Charlottesville, where a white supremacist rally took place. (Picture: AP)

Prosecutors said, on the day before the attack, Fields took to social media and ‘expressed and promoted his belief that white people are superior to other races and peoples; expressed support of the social and racial policies of Adolf Hitler and Nazi-era Germany, including the Holocaust.’

‘(Fields also) espoused violence against African Americans, Jewish people and members of other racial, ethnic and religious groups he perceived to be non-white.’

He later drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of protesters promoting equality.

The indictment said: ‘Fields rapidly accelerated, through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly into the crowd.’

‘Fields’s vehicle stopped only when it struck another vehicle near the intersection of Fourth and Water Streets.

‘Fields then rapidly reversed his car and fled the scene.’