Dylann Roof on Tuesday appealed his federal convictions and death sentence in the 2015 massacre of nine black church members in South Carolina, arguing that he was mentally ill when he represented himself at his capital trial.
In a 321-page legal brief filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Roof's lawyers asked the court to review 20 issues, including errors they said were made by the judge and prosecutors that "tainted" his sentencing.
One of their main arguments is that U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel should not have allowed Roof to represent himself during the penalty phase of his trial because he was a 22-year-old ninth-grade dropout "who believed his sentence didn't matter because white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war."
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5 comments:
No mercy for racist trash
We have the right to self representation. Most of us shouldn't.
Nope, give him his 20 years of 3 hots and a cot....then execute him. In 20 years he may figure out why what he did was so terribly wrong that he deserves to die. Thinking about that inevitable day he will die for his crime is the best punishment of all. It's already starting to panic him.
What if he didn't do it?
What about that?
What if the CIA is running a Psyop on us?
Then what?
Why is this evil piece of CHIT still alive ?
He needs to be put to sleep
so he can enjoy his bed in hell
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