Category: federal hate crimes laws

Supreme Court Declines Appeal of Dylann Roof, White Supremacist Mass Murderer

The Supreme Court refused to hear the death-penalty appeal of 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. The court announced in an unsigned order on Oct. 11 that it would not take the case of Dylann Storm…


Convicted Mass Murderer Dylann Roof Asks Supreme Court to Consider His Death-Penalty Appeal

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…