Dylann Roof — the neo-Nazi who killed nine Black parishioners at a South Carolina church in 2015 — appealed his death sentence again on Wednesday, claiming the victims were portrayed too sympathetically during his federal trial. Roof, 27, filed another petition in the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, where a three-judge …
A Virginia federal appeals court upheld the death penalty on Wednesday for Dylann Roof, a South Carolina teen who shot and killed numerous Black worshippers who welcomed him into their church. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Roof’s attorneys filed a 321-page legal brief with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond last year, claiming …
The lawyers of a South Carolina man on death row for the deaths of 12 church-going Black people are appealing his death sentence, claiming that a mental illness should have prevented him from representing himself. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorneys for Dylann Roof filed a 321-page legal brief with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals …
On Friday, a jury convicted a Tennessee man of all charges for his role in a 2017 church shooting which killed one woman and injured seven others. Emanuel Kidega Samson, 27, was found guilty for the first-degree murder of Melanie Crow, 38, who he shot in the face and back as she walked through Burnette …
The sister of convicted killer Dylann Roof was arrested on Wednesday after she reportedly caught with weapons at a South Carolina school, a day after she allegedly posted a threatening message on social media. WIS 10 reports that Morgan Roof, 18, was arrested at AC Flora High School in Columbia on Wednesday afternoon, after students reported …
A South Carolina man accused of purchasing a gun as part of a racist plan to stage a church shooting pleaded guilty this week to being a felon in possession of a firearm. As Fox News reported, authorities say 30-year-old Benjamin McDowell confided in an undercover FBI agent, describing a desire to attack a target …
New details about the extremist views of convicted killer Dylann Roof have emerged in the form of a letter he reportedly wrote in response to a reformed white supremacist interested in reaching out to him. The initial letter presented an olive branch to Roof, according to the New York Daily News, but was met with …
Roof is housed at a facility that executes inmates via lethal injection
His lawyers argues that the crime took place entirely in South Carolina, and not all federal charges were proven
The convicted mass murder has long resisted claims he is mentally ill
A judge has deemed Dylann Roof mentally competent to represent himself and face sentencing after gunning down nine black churchgoers at Emanuel AME. US District Judge Richard Gergel also granted the 22-year-old’s request for an extra day to prepare for the sentencing trial, Fox News reports. Gergel opted to have a private hearing after Roof’s …
