Roof was sentenced to death today for killing nine churchgoers in 2015.RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof's conviction and sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.
In his appeal, Roof's attorneys argued that he was wrongly allowed to represent himself during sentencing, a critical phase of his trial. Roof successfully prevented jurors from hearing evidence about his mental health, “under the delusion,” his attorneys argued, that “he would be rescued from prison by white-nationalists — but only, bizarrely, if he kept his mental-impairments out of the public record.
“Dylann Roof murdered African Americans at their church, during their Bible-study and worship. They had welcomed him. He slaughtered them. He did so with the express intent of terrorizing not just his immediate victims at the historically important Mother Emanuel Church, but as many similar people as would hear of the mass murder," the panel wrote in is ruling.
All of the judges in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers South Carolina, recused themselves from hearing Roof’s appeal; one of their own, Judge Jay Richardson, prosecuted Roof’s case as an assistant U.S. Attorney. The panel that heard arguments in May and issued the ruling on Wednesday was comprised of judges from several other appellate circuits.
Thank you！
His death should be watched by the family of those slain
I'm thinking maybe one BK meal left.
Ok so get r done already!
Fighting against racism is a waste of time: identity politics is only a bait by which capitalists hide and win class struggle. Yes, workers are racists and sexists but blame the labor market where you have to compete by all means, and against robots, to enrich the super-rich.
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