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A Texas jury ordered Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook victim on Friday, August 5th, a day after he was ordered to pay $4.1 million in actual damages for claiming that the school shooting was a hoax. Friday's damages are punishment for Jones’ statements, while Thursday’s damages were meant to compensate the parents for economic and noneconomic damages like emotional distress. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of the 459th District Court in Travis County may reduce the punitive damages given due to limits on punitive damages, with a per-defendant cap of two times the amount of economic damages, plus the amount of noneconomic damages found by the jury if the latter part not to exceed $750,00