By Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com and Associated Press
Published: 14:05 BST, 23 June 2019 | Updated: 14:05 BST, 23 June 2019
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No remorse: Lawyers for James Alex Fields Jr. (mugshot above) said in a sentencing memo that their client is too young for life sentence
The white supremacist who killed one woman and left dozens more injured when he mowed down a group of protesters who had assembled at a white nationalist rally in Virginia two years ago is asking a judge for a commuted sentence.
A sentencing memo filed last week by lawyers for James Alex Fields Jr., 22, states that their client should not have to spend his natural-born life in prison because of his age, the fact that he endured a traumatic childhood and his history of mental illness.
Fields entered a guilty plea to federal hate crimes earlier this year in a deal that spared him from possibly getting the death penalty for killing anti-racism activist Heather Heyer.
'No amount of punishment imposed on James can repair the damage he caused to dozens of innocent people. But this Court should find that retribution has limits,' reads the memo.
Meanwhile, the man behind the domestic terror attack
