Dylann Roof faces the death penalty or life in prison when the penalty phase of his hate crimes trial resumes on January 3.
"After we looked at the evidence and read the laws, and looked at the things that were presented to us by the judge, we had to come to find out that he didn't do anything malicious," the foreman said.
Currently, Roof faces 33 federal offenses, including hate crime charges based on the allegation that he purposely targeted members of Emanuel based on their race and religion.
A judge has delayed the trial of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in a race-inspired shooting…
In a matter of seconds, a moment of quiet prayer turned into a massacre. “We were just about to say the prayer to be released,”…
It’s been a little over a month since the horrific Emanuel AME Church shooting took place in Charleston, S.C., claiming the lives of nine African-Americans.…
The Confederate flag, hated symbol of racism and oppression, is on its way to disappearing from state government use, since its association with the killer of 9 Mother Emanuel AME Church members, and now another positive development has arisen from that tragedy. A group of anonymous donors has established The Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, donating […]
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