The terrifying incident came just weeks after Trump was left with a grazed ear when a bullet narrowly missed him during another assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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During his trial last September, Routh pleaded not guilty to all five charges against him and chose to represent himself in court, where he was found guilty on every count.
After a jury found him guilty, Routh attempted to stab himself in the neck with a pen before US marshals quickly escorted him out of the courtroom to a place of safety.
For the last four months, Routh, who is originally from North Carolina and lived in Hawaii before his arrest, has been detained in custody, yet it was only on Wednesday (February 4) that his sentence was revealed, when a judge handed down a life sentence for the severity of his crime.In a sentencing memorandum, Judge Aileen Cannon said Routh’s crimes ‘undeniably warrant a life sentence’.
« [H]e took steps over the course of months to assassinate a major Presidential candidate, demonstrated the will to kill anybody in the way, and has since expressed neither regret nor remorse to his victims, » she wrote.
It is understood he will be appealing his conviction.
While a life sentence is one of the harshest sentences that authorities in Florida can hand down, it is not the most severe option at the court’s disposal, as the state still actively supports the death penalty.
