Charleston Massacre Killer Dylann Roof Condemned to Death

For a initial time in a story of a U.S., a sovereign and state governments have followed a genocide chastisement for a same culprit. Today, Jan. 10, 2017, Dylann Roof was condemned to die for a Jun 2015 murdering of 9 African-Americans attending a Bible investigate category in South Carolina.

Roof stood in probity with an unapologetic countenance on his face. Before a jury returned to pronounce his fate, Roof’s final difference to row members were that he was misjudged. However, he did not offer house members any construction for a murder of a victims or a singular reason to atonement his life.

In court, Roof never altered his stance. He certified that after he was arrested, he told FBI agents his actions were simply something he had to do. “But that’s not true,” Roof mentioned to a jury. “It wasn’t something we had to do. we didn’t have to do anything. What we meant when we pronounced that was that we felt that we had to do it, and we even now, zero has changed, we still feel a same.”

In turn, prosecuting attorneys voiced to adjudicators that Roof was an “emotionless” and “premeditated” racialist who consummated an whole organisation of people as “monster beings.” Then proceeded to trust his lie, thereby justifying a executions. Even after listening to a cries of a victim’s desired ones, he still showed no remorse. In fact, he stood with a vacant demeanour on his face.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Julius “Jay” Richardson stated, Roof has a dark motive. “He needs we to consider that we have been misinformed and that truly that his actions are warranted,” Richardson told a row of 9 whites and 3 black jury members. “[The accused] is pulling for we to trust that he was fit in carrying out a present-day lynching. Don’t concede this to be. Give a full apportionment of probity for this defendant. Sentence this suspect to his demise.”

Even if jury members in a sovereign authorised record select to save his life, Roof still could be looking during a genocide sentence. Further information indicates that Roof is set to mount before a apart genocide chastisement trial. This will take place in state court. There, a prosecuting attorneys are posterior a genocide judgment for him as well.

Written by Jomo Merritt
Edited by Cathy Milne

Sources:

Los Angeles Times: Dylann Roof condemned to genocide in Charleston church sharpened that killed 9
YAHOO! News: The Latest: Victim’s hermit says genocide suitable for Roof

Image by Ammodramus Courtesy of Wikimedia – Public Domain License

  Roof