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After an intense round of closing arguments that at one point caused Chris Kyle's widow, Taya, to storm out of the courtroom, her husband's killer, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty of capital murder on Tuesday night. He received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Routh shot Kyle, the real-life hero behind the blockbuster movie American Sniper, and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas gun range on Feb. 2, 2013. After the verdict was read at about 9:15 p.m. Central Standard Time, Littlefield's stepbrother Jerry Richardson read a statement to Routh in court. "Because of you...

After an intense round of closing arguments that at one point caused Chris Kyle's widow, Taya, to angrily storm out of the courtroom, her husband's killer, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty of capital murder on Tuesday night. He received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Routh shot Kyle, the real-life hero behind the blockbuster movie American Sniper, and his friend Chad Littlefield at a Texas gun range on Feb. 2, 2013. After the verdict was read at about 9:15 p.m. Texas time, Jerry Richardson, Littlefield's stepbrother, read a statement to Routh in court. "Because of you...

The trial of Eddie Ray Routh, the alleged murderer of real-life American Sniper Chris Kyle, began Wednesday in Stephenville, Texas. After Routh's attorneys entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, the two sides faced off in opening statements over whether Routh, 27, understood what he was doing was wrong when he allegedly shot Kyle and Chad Littlefield to death on Feb. 2, 2013, at a shooting range in Texas. In a courtroom packed with onlookers and journalists, Kyle's widow, Taya, who began testifying after the opening statements, sat with her eyes closed and hands folded as prosecutor Alan Nash argued that Routh's conduct before,...