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

October 11, 2022
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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…

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

September 2, 2022
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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…

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