EL PASO, Texas — A state judge sentenced Patrick Crusius, a self-described White nationalist with a history of mental illness, to life in prison on Monday for killing 23 people and injuring 22 others in 2019 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, one of the deadliest attacks on Hispanic civilians in American history.

Judge Sam Medrano Jr. handed down the sentence before hearing impact statements from family members and survivors. “You traveled nine hours to a city that would have welcomed you with open arms,” Medrano told Crusius. “You brought not peace but hate. You came to inflict terror, to take innocent lives.”

Crusius, looking disheveled in a white and orange prison jumpsuit, did not betray any emotions as the judge read his sentence, other than to say that he pleaded guilty to capital murder, with its automatic life sentence, and to 22 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He has no chance of parole.

Crusius had already been sentenced by a federal judge last year to 90 consecutive life terms after he pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes charges.

— The New York Times