Life imprisonment
The law, taking effect July 1, makes Virginia the 23rd state to ban sentencing youths to life without the possibility of parole.
Fields is already facing a Virginia life sentence for murder for ramming his car into a crowd at an extremist rally, killing protester Heather Heyer.
A survey found record-high support in California for life imprisonment rather than the death penalty for first-degree murder.
A new report from the Abolitionist Law Center "presents a definitive portrait of a punishment that is archaic, cruel, unjustified, and indefensible,โ its co-author says.
