Young man who killed 9 black people in church sentenced to death.
American Dylann Roof, 22, was sentenced to death on Tuesday (10) for the murder of nine black people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; Roof was found guilty of 33 crimes by the jury, including murder and hate crimes; during the trial, he stated he did not regret the crime.
247 - American Dylann Roof, 22, was sentenced to death on Tuesday (10) for the murder of nine black people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015. Roof was found guilty of 33 crimes by the jury, including murder and hate crimes. It took the jurors about three hours to reach a verdict.
Throughout the process, Roof drew attention for not expressing remorse for the murders, saying that the dead "belonged to an inferior race" and only lamenting the "problems" it brought to his own family.
Acting as his own lawyer, he tried to appeal to the jurors to grant him "only" a life sentence and justified his crime by saying that he felt hatred for black people.
In June 2015, Roof attended a Bible study meeting at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. While with members of the church, he opened fire and killed nine people.