The sister of the man sentenced to death for killing nine black parishioners in the basement of a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015 was arrested Wednesday on charges of carrying a weapon onto school property and marijuana possession.
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Dylann Roof on Tuesday asked the Fourth Circuit to overturn his conviction and death sentence stemming from his murder of nine black worshipers in a racist attack on a Charleston, South Carolina church in 2015.
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Journalists on Tuesday morning got their first look at videos showing Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof’s jailhouse visits with his family, part of a trove of documents unsealed by a federal judge over the past several days.
Read moreA former detention officer at the Charleston County jail in South Carolina claims in court he was made the scapegoat for a 2016 jailhouse assault on convicted church gunman Dylann Roof and later libeled by the local daily newspaper.
Read moreA Republican House candidate in South Carolina is being condemned for a political ad in which she calls the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds a knee jerk reaction to the Charleston church massacre while holding an assault rifle in her hands.
Read moreDylann Roof, the South Carolina man who massacred nine churchgoers during a Bible study class at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston in June 2015 has been transferred to federal death row in Indiana.
Read moreDylann Roof, already sentenced to die after a federal trial for the 2015 murders of nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday to state charges for the killings.
Read moreConvicted Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof will plead guilty to state murder charges to avoid a second death sentence.
Read moreThe only person Dylann Roof told of his plan to slaughter worshipers at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for failing to report a crime and lying to the FBI.
Read moreA federal judge said Tuesday that he will share court documents created during the federal murder trial of Dylann Roof with attorneys preparing for the convicted Charleston church gunman’s state trial.
Read moreA federal judge formally sentenced Dylann Roof to death on Wednesday, a day after a jury handed the down the sentence for his killing nine black worshippers in a bloodbath at a church in downtown Charleston.
Read moreConvicted Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof addressed the jury that will begin weighing whether to give him the death penalty Tuesday saying, “from what I’ve been told, I have the right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I’m not sure what good that would do anyway.”
Read moreProsecutors rested their death penalty case against Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof Monday after four days of testimony.
Read moreDylann Roof is so consumed by his white supremacist beliefs that he even wore shoes to court this week that had racist symbols drawn on them, an FBI agent testified Friday.
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The sentencing trial of Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof stalled briefly Thursday morning after he filed a motion objecting to the number of witnesses testifying and one his former defense attorneys tried to intervene in the case.
Read moreFederal prosecutors opened the penalty phase of Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof’s trial on Wednesday by reading from a journal entry he wrote after his arrest in which he brazenly stated, “I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”
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Convicted Charleston Church gunman Dylann Roof told jurors “there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically,” as the sentencing phase of his federal trial began Wednesday morning.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday ruled that Dylann Roof, convicted of killing non people inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, is competent to represent himself at the penalty phase of his murder trial, which is set to begin Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday ordered a new competency exam for convicted Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof, who faced the death penalty for killing nine black members of the Emanual AME Church in 2015.
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