The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to refuse to hear a death-penalty appeal by an avowed white supremacist who gunned down nine people at a black church in South Carolina in 2015 in an effort to spark a race war. Dylann Storm Roof, now 28, is the first individual in the…
Convicted Mass Murderer Dylann Roof Asks Supreme Court to Consider His Death-Penalty Appeal
September 2, 2022
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Dylann Roof Seeks Rehearing on Church Shooting Conviction
Dylann Roof has filed the next step in his federal appeal, challenging a court’s confirmation of his conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a black South Carolina congregation. In a petition filed Wednesday with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for Roof argued that the court’s…
Court Upholds Death Sentence for Church Shooter Dylann Roof
RICHMOND, Va.—A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 slayings of nine members of a black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected…
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