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Court Upholds Death Sentence for White Supremacist Who Killed 9 at Emanuel AME Church

HeadlineAug 26, 2021

A U.S. appeals court has upheld the conviction and death sentence of white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black worshipers at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. In 2017, Roof became the first federal prisoner sentenced to death for a hate crime.

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