Dylann Roof, the White supremacist who shot and killed nine Black churchgoers in a hate crime at Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina in 2015, has been condemned to death by a federal jury.
President Obama will give his final speech on January 10 at McCormick Place, the same place he celebrated his 2012 presidential win.
Dylann Roof faces the death penalty or life in prison when the penalty phase of his hate crimes trial resumes on January 3.
A federal jury on Thursday found Dylann Roof guilty of all 33 charges in the Mother Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, reports CNN. Roof confessed to killing nine people last year at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He could face the death penalty, reports CNN: Deliberations began Thursday afternoon in the Dylann Roof murder trial after […]
Today, a federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina convicted the 22-year-old White supremacist on nearly three dozen charges.
Dylann Roof asked a federal judge if his former defense team could represent him for his murder trial.
Judge Gergel warned Roof that it would be in his best interest to have legal representation, but approved the request and resumed jury selection.
A federal judge decided to resume jury selection after initially postponing the process on Monday afternoon.
The first set of more than 3,000 potential jurors appeared in court for questioning in the Charleston church shooter trial. Attorney will select 12 jurors for the trail that's set to begin in late November.
Mother Emanuel Church shooter Dylann Roof was involved in an altercation in jail around 7:45 a.m. Thursday morning, WCBD reports. According to the incident report, Dwayne Marion Stafford, 26, a fellow inmate at a Charleston County jail, escaped his room, ran down a flight of stairs, and hit Roof several times in the face and […]
Dylann Roof's lawyer, Sarah Gannett, said the charges are "extremely grave" and "under the Constitution they are not properly charged."
Much has changed, but a lot has stayed the same since tragedy unfolded a year ago at "Mother" Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.