Dylann Roof, Perpetrator Of Charleston Massacre, Sentenced To Death

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Dylann Roof, who in 2015 killed nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death after a jury of 12 people agreed that the 22-year-old was deserving of capital punishment.

The 10 women and two men who made up the jury delivered their verdict and Judge Richard Gergel will be in charge of delivering the formal sentence to Roof tomorrow, Wednesday, January 11 at 9:30 a.m. EST, as reported by the site in CNN line.

"I felt I had to, and I still feel I had to," the shooter told the jury, moments before the jury took refuge to deliberate its final decision for about three hours.

The name of the person responsible for the tragedy in Charleston is added to that of 63 other prisoners in the United States who are waiting for his death sentence to be carried out. The list includes, among others, Gary Lee Sampson, a serial killer, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bomb.

On the morning of Wednesday, June 17, 2015, the young man broke into one of the most iconic African-American churches in the region and indiscriminately shot at parishioners present. Nine people, including Senator Clementa C. Pinckney, they lost their lives.

Roof was captured by the authorities the morning of the day after his attack, confessing without remorse his deeds and expressing harangues about the supremacy of the white race.