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Dylann roof the white supremacist who killed nine black people at a south carolina church in 2015 has appealed his conviction and death sentence with lawyers arguing he was too mentally ill to.

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He put it down and looked past jurors for about 30. A jury in south carolina thursday convicted dylann roof in the shootings that killed nine black church members during a bible study in charleston last year a verdict that could lead to a death. Dylann storm roof confessed to killing nine people at a historic black church in charleston because he hoped it would start a race war the 21 year old from lexington south carolina was. He has been charged with nine counts of murder in a mass shooting inside the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in charleston south carolina last wednesday.

Pinckney and injured. South carolina church shooting victims 16 photos roof walked to the podium less than 10 feet from the jury box with a yellow sheet of paper. He could be sentenced to death. The 21 year old accused of killing nine people inside a black church in charleston made his first court appearance with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements.

State of south carolina. Dylann roof appears via video before a judge in charleston s c on friday june 19 2015. The charleston church shooting also known as the charleston church massacre was a mass shooting on june 17 2015 in charleston south carolina in which nine african americans were killed during a bible study at the emanuel african methodist episcopal church among those people who were killed was the senior pastor state senator clementa c. A jury in charleston s c has found roof guilty on all 33 federal hate crime counts for murdering nine people in the basement of a historically black church in 2015.

Lawyers for dylann roof convicted of killing nine people at an historically black church in charleston say the then 22 year old was mentally ill and never should have been allowed to represent.