Dylann Roof Trial: Charleston Church Shooter Sentenced to Death
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Dylann Roof Trial: The jury has reached a verdict in sentencing of the Charleston church killer, Dylann Roof, and have decided that he will be sentenced to the death penalty. MSNBC’s Mariana Atencio reports.
Dylann Roof is the first person in US history to face the death penalty for a federal hate crime. Nine black people were killed in the massacre at Emanuel AME church in Charleston, on June 17 2015. Roof had been welcomed into the church’s Bible study, but opened fire when the group closed their eyes for a final prayer.
Roof did not explain the motive for his crimes, though in his confession to the FBI had said that he hoped to bring back segregation or start a race war.
“He decided the day, the hour and the moment that my sister was going to die, and now someone is going to do the same for him,” Melvin Graham, brother of shooting victim Cynthia Hurd, 54, said outside the federal courthouse in downtown Charleston.
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Victim’s dad warns Dylann Roof: ‘Your creator … he’s coming for you’ – CNN Holman Gossett, a former prosecutor in South Carolina, said it’s possible Roof could ask for a new trial. “He didn’t have any attorneys helping him in the penalty phase so he may make that motion after reflecting on it,” Gossett told affiliate WSPA …
Charleston shooting trial: What’s next for Dylann Roof? – ABC 57 News Dylann Roof was “cold and calculating” in planning an attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday in opening statements at Roof’s trial in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof studied the church’s long history…
At Dylann Roof’s Trial, a Question of How Many Tears Are Too Many … – New York Times Dylann S. Roof listening to court proceedings with William Maguire, an assistant defense attorney, during a hearing in July 2015 in Charleston, S.C. Credit Pool …
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