Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. ![]() We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. Attorney General Bill Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate the federal death penalty last July, but the Supreme Court agreed to put that plan on hold in December.You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography). The federal government has not executed a convict since 2003. He was sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences and three consecutive 30-year sentences for those counts. According to one transcript, Roof told a psychologist working for his defense team that his death penalty wouldn’t be carried out because he’d “be rescued by white nationalists after they took over the government.”Īfter his conviction on federal charges, Roof pleaded guilty in April 2017 to state murder and attempted murder charges in the killings. Roof’s mental state was explored in detail in documents from Roof’s competency hearings and videos of three prison visits by his family that were released in May 2017. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.” I do not regret what I did,” Roof wrote in the journal. ![]() Prosecutors presented evidence in court of chilling writings from a jailhouse journal he wrote after the attack. “Anything you heard from my lawyers in the last phase, I ask you to forget it,” he said. (Photo by Randall Hill - Pool/Getty Images) Randall Hill/Pool/Getty Imagesĭylann Roof jury: Death penalty for Charleston church shooter Roof is charged with murdering nine worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston last month. He represented himself at the penalty phase of the trial, telling jurors that “there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically” and to disregard his attorneys’ previous arguments during the trial.ĬHARLESTON, SC - JULY 16: Dylann Roof (R), 21, listens to proceeding with assistant defense attorney William Maguire during a hearing at the Judicial Center Jin Charleston, South Carolina. ![]() Roof, an avowed white supremacist, was convicted of federal murder and hate crimes charges, and he was sentenced to death in January 2017. “Roof’s crime was tragic, but this Court can have no confidence in the jury’s verdict,” the attorneys wrote. The trial court, the attorneys said, was in a “rush to move the case along” and prevented the jurors from hearing evidence surrounding Roof’s competency hearings in which five experts found him to be “delusional.” The attorneys argued that Roof was allowed to represent himself at his capital trial despite being mentally incompetent and “disconnected from reality.” In a 321-page motion filed with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the attorneys wrote that the federal trial court “clearly erred in finding Roof competent to stand trial and sentencing, and it violated his due process rights by holding inadequate competency hearings.” The argument about Roof’s mental stability came as his attorneys asked a federal appeals court to overturn his 2017 death penalty conviction for the 2015 massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church. Dylann Roof was convicted of killing nine people at a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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