Morgan Roof, sister of Dylann Roof, was arrested on weapons and drug charges Wednesday after bringing a knife, pepper spray, and marijuana to her high school in South Carolina, the New York Times reports.
On Monday, Dylann Roof, the man who murdered nine people at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, was given nine life sentences without parole in a state hearing. In January, a federal jury sentenced Roof to death.
After nine Charleston, South Carolina churchgoers were slain in 2015 by white supremacist Dylann Roof, the nation turned a condemnatory gaze towards the Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse. After much protest, it was ceremoniously removed. However, the 15-year-old Heritage Act has ensured that the rebel flag …
A federal jury in Charleston, South Carolina has sentenced Dylann Roof, 22, to execution for the horrific crime of murdering nine in an assault on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of oldest and most historically rich A.M.E. congregations in the United States. As reported by MSNBC, Roof is the…
After going back and forth with his lawyers several times over who would represent him during the sentencing portion of his trial, convicted murderer Dylann Roof stood in front of the jury and insisted that he is perfectly sane.
A South Carolina jury convicted Dylann Roof Wednesday of murdering black churchgoers at a church, after first sitting with them at a Bible study class. Roof, a 22-year-old high school dropout, has chosen to represent himself at the sentencing phase of his trial, which will decide whether he gets the death penalty.
On June 17, 2015, nine parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Church were shot dead by self-described white supremacist Dylann Roof, who has since been charged with 33 counts, including hate crimes. Roof faces the death penalty in a state court trial that is slated to begin mid-January.
Dylann Roof was given permission to represent himself by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in late November. Roof was arrested for the murder of nine parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, and faces the death penalty.
After hearing testimony from psychologists and witnesses, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel decided Dylann Roof was competent to stand trial starting next week for the 2015 murder of nine parishioners at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
On June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people worshipping inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nearly a year later, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that, in light of Roof’s crimes, the Department of Justice would pursue the death penalty. But…
On June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof gunned down a congregation at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, leaving nine dead. Now federal prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty against him, and the families of the victims accept this measure. Some, in fact, welcome it.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch publicly stated on Tuesday that the Justice Department will seek the death penalty against Dylann Roof, the suspected perpetrator of the racially-motivated Charleston church shootings that occurred almost a year ago.
The AP reports that U.S. Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant has entered a not guilty plea for Charleston shooter Dylann Roof after defense attorney David Bruck advised Roof to not plead guilty to the 33 federal charges brought against him until prosecutors announce whether or not they plan to seek the death penalty.
On Wednesday, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly highlighted a reporter who tried to cover a Black Lives Matter protest in Chicago but was told to turn off his camera by activists. O’Reilly somehow linked that to black-on-black crime, the condemnation of white people and himself as the reporter giving the most coverage to the Black…
The FBI has just announced that Dylann Roof was allowed to purchase the .45-caliber handgun he used to shoot and kill nine members of the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC last month due to a “background check failure.”
On Friday, South Carolina removed the Confederate flag that has flown over the state’s capitol for more than 50 years. As the Highway Patrol Honor Guard marched and removed the symbol, protestors both for and against its removal crowded around and yelled things like “take it down!”
On Friday, South Carolina Senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney was memorialized in a packed auditorium at the College Of Charleston. As his wife and two young daughters sat and suffered what must be the worst moment of their short lives, President Obama delivered Pinckney’s eulogy with fervor and deliberation. It was…
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Now that Dylann Roof is in custody and has been charged with nine counts of murder, the question is: how will he plead? The speculation in days following in the massacre is that Roof will plead like fellow mass shooter James Holmes did and claim not guilty by reason of insanity. That scenario seems much less likely…
On Thursday night, an NRA board member manipulated the national tragedy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church by turning the murders into an argument for his political gain, because this is America.
