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A SELF-PROCLAIMED white supremacist and leader of the alt-right movement appeared in court Thursday on charges he pepper-sprayed a counterprotester in Charlottesville, Va.

Christopher Cantwell, 36, was charged with two counts of illegal use of tear gas, phosgene and other gases, and one count of malicious bodily injury by means of any caustic substance or agent or use of any explosive or fire, according to NBC29.

He was denied bond and said he will hire his own lawyer.

Cantwell was featured in a Vice documentary about the Aug. 11 march. In an Aug. 16 YouTube video, he cried as he said he tried to reach out to police after learning he was being sought. FLORIDA ON Thursday executed a white man for the killing of a black man — a first for the state.

Mark Asay, 53, convicted of two racially motivated murders in 1987, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. at a state prison in Starke. He received a three-drug injection that included an anesthetic never used before in a U.S. lethal injection.

Asay made racist comments when he fatally shot Robert Lee Booker, 37, who was black. He was also was convicted of killing Robert McDowell, 26, who was of mixed race.