RICHMOND, Va. (AP) –A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of a man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday affirmed Dylann Roof’s conviction and sentence in the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME…
His attorneys argue the “delusional belief” of the man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation should have meant he couldn’t represent himself at trial. Attorneys for Dylann Roof told an appeals court Tuesday that Roof’s theory that he’d be saved by white nationalists – but only if he kept mental health evidence out of his defense – should have shown his trial judge he wasn’t competent.
Photo courtesy of WCIV CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The wait to know whether federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty in the Dylann Roof murder trial will go on for at least another couple months, it appears after Tuesday morning’s bar meeting. U.S. Attorneys told Judge Richard Gergel that they had not yet filed the formal paperwork to the federal…
