{"id":13918,"date":"2019-02-14T07:07:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2019-02-14T07:07:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:07:41","slug":"life-in-prison-for-white-supremacist-convicted-of-stabbing-black-man-to-death-near-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2019\/02\/14\/life-in-prison-for-white-supremacist-convicted-of-stabbing-black-man-to-death-near-times-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Life In Prison For White Supremacist Convicted Of Stabbing Black Man To Death Near Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>An Army veteran from Baltimore who\u00a0pleaded guilty to terror charges<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0murdering a black man in a racially motivated attack<\/a>\u00a0nearly two years ago was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole \u2013 the maximum sentence allowed.<\/p>\n

James Jackson, 30, fatally stabbed\u00a0Timothy Caughman<\/a>, 66, in the back with a sword on March 20, 2017 near Times Square.<\/p>\n

Jackson told police he traveled to the city to pull off a \u201cpolitical terrorist attack\u201d and \u201cinspire white men to kill black men, to scare black men, and to provoke a race war,\u201d according to the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Caughman\u2019s family and friends say they find little comfort knowing the man who killed him two years ago will never be a free man.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just, and it ain\u2019t justice,\u201d said Caughman\u2019s friend Carl Nimmons. \u201cHe got life in prison. But Timothy is gone, and we\u2019ll never see him again.<\/p>\n

Jackson pleaded guilty to all charges against him, including murder in the first degree in furtherance of an act of terrorism and murder in the second degree as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

The conviction represents the first time a white supremacist has been convicted on terror charges in New York State, Vance said. Vance said Jackson wrote a manifesto emblazoned with a swastika and a Crusader\u2019s cross, which outlined his hope for the extermination of \u201cNegro races.\u201d They shared passages from his manifesto, never heard before, which read \u201cthe racial world war starts today\u201d and \u201cNegroes are obviously first on the list for extermination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson was in the Army from March 2009 to August 2012 and worked as a military intelligence analyst, according to the Army. He was deployed in Afghanistan from December 2010 to November 2011 and earned several medals.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s attorney claims he wasn\u2019t a racist but snapped after returning from service in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe simply couldn\u2019t find direction in the world,\u201d said defense attorney Fred Sosinsky.<\/p>\n

Jackson apologized in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt never should have happened,\u201d he said. \u201cIf I could do it all over again this never would have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caughman\u2019s loved ones don\u2019t buy it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was for the courts. It was BS,\u201d Portia Clark said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWas it insulting?\u201d CBS2\u2019s Hazel Sanchez asked Nimmons.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. Yes it was insulting. Because I know he didn\u2019t mean it, no kind of way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Caughman\u2019s cousin read a letter to the judge, describing the family\u2019s heartbreaking loss, saying \u201cwe\u2019ll never know how much he truly suffered, or how alone he felt in his last moments. That is our life sentence. We get no parole either.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the outset of this case, the people have rejected any resolution of this case that does not acknowledge the reality that James Jackson is a white supremacist and terrorist.\u00a0 This defendant has now pleaded guilty to all counts of the indictment against him, including terrorism.\u00a0 But the fact Mr. Jackson has pleaded guilty in no way mitigates the horror of his actions.\u00a0 The defendant will be sentenced to the maximum sentence provided by our laws \u2013 life without parole,\u201d said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. \u201cThat is a sentence reserved for crimes which by their definition seek to divide, terrorize, and undermine our way of life and central values \u2013 values of racial equality, and the peaceful coexistence of all New Yorkers. This sentence is mandatory under the defendant\u2019s plea to murder as a crime of terrorism, and we submit today that the conduct to which the defendant has admitted is worthy of no other sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson defense team says it plans to appeal, which could take two more years.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2019\/02\/13\/james-jackson-sentencing-times-square-killing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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