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Thursday, December 15, 2016

JUST IN: Jurors Convict Dylann Roof On All Counts In Church Slayings

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling attack on nine black church members who were shot to death last year during a Bible study, affirming the prosecution’s portrayal of a young white man who hoped the slayings would start a race war or bring back segregation.

Instead, the single biggest change to emerge from the June 17, 2015, slayings that shocked the nation was the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, where it had flown for 50 years over the Capitol or on the grounds. Roof appeared with the flag in several photos in a racist manifesto.

In his confession to the FBI, the gunman said he carried out the killings after researching “black on white crime” on the internet. He said he chose a church because that setting posed little danger to him.

Roof just stared ahead — much as he did the entire trial — as the verdict was read.

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope he gets the death penalty. I'm white and not real religious but what's right is right.

Anonymous said...

They should set him free... in the same neighborhood as that church, then turn their backs and let justice take its course. Come back in an hour to pick up what's left of him.

Anonymous said...

Race and religion have no bearing on what this kid deserves. He should be tourtured to death on pay-per-view with the proceeds going to the families.

Anonymous said...

Poor kid is just misunderstood. He has had a very hard youth, and needs to be forgivin, it was not his fault he acted out. Parents, Teachers, Minister, and Counselors all failed him. It is not his fault, have him go to Dr. Phil Show and explain it.

Anonymous said...

Bullets re less than $2 per round. One does the trick..

I'll travel for the priviledge.

Anonymous said...

Dr. Phil can fix him.

Anonymous said...

8:50 Have gun will travel?

Anonymous said...

But but but Dems dont do the death penalty ? Selective penaltys when it suits them.

Anonymous said...

South Carolina deserves the death penalty for removing the Confederate Flag which had nothing to do with the shootings. PC IDIOTS Fell right into Obamas racist push which has set this country back decades.

Anonymous said...

And now that same jury that only took one hour to convict him of the heinous crimes that he committed, will get to decide whether he gets life w/o parole, or a death sentence. I'm betting they will give him a death sentence, given all the evidence they were forced to witness in the courtroom. Either way, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. That kid is scared to death of dying. It will be so appropriate for him to envision his own approaching death date while in prison, and then being strapped down and executed. He will be crying like the baby coward that he is. No sympathy for that lowlife coward.