Dylann Roof enters a Charleston County courtroom for an April 10, 2017, plea hearing when he was sentenced to life on state charges. ', The federal jury convicted Roof (pictured) of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes.

Updated 10:32 AM ET, Wed January 29, 2020. During a separate proceeding in state court, Roof was given nine life sentences in exchange for his guilty plea, 'I still feel like I had to do it,' Roof said in his closing argument. With the passage of time, Roof said, he expected white supremacists to take over the U.S. within several years, pardon him for the killings and make him governor of South Carolina. After murdering nine churchgoers in June 2015, no one thought self-avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof was a rational human being. According to recently released transcripts of hearings to determine his competency to stand trial, Roof told his lawyers that he’d go through the appellate process to drag his case out as long as he could. Here's Why, What States Trump and Biden Need to Get Elected, Beirut Explosion: WSJ Reporter Relives the Moment in His Shattered Home, News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Appellate lawyers arguing, “the federal trial shouldn’t have happened at all.” They went on to say, the state quickly brought capital charges against Roof’s “wholly-intrastate crime,” but months later, federal prosecutors sought their own death sentence. Roof never explained why he committed the massacre. His lawyers argue the court made mistakes during the trial. "When Dylann Roof represented himself at his capital trial, he was a 22-year-old, ninth-grade dropout diagnosed with schizophrenia-spectrum disorder, autism, anxiety, and depression, who believed his sentence didn't matter because white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war," the filing says. Chuck Burton/AP Photo. That being said, one can only hope he blows through his appeals quickly. The comments below have been moderated in advance. In their legal brief, Roof's appellate lawyers argue that the 'federal trial shouldn't have happened at all'. His latest antics with his appeals since being sentenced to death confirm it. Given no reason to do otherwise, jurors sentenced Roof to death,' his attorneys wrote. 'This Court should vacate Roof´s convictions and death sentence,' they wrote. Roof's appellate lawyers said their client had been diagnosed with 'schizophrenia-spectrum disorder, autism, anxiety, and depression,' but that he 'jettisoned' his experienced trial attorneys to stop them from preventing evidence of his mental illness to jurors. On October 18, 1929, The Privy Council of the United Kingdom declared that women were considered "persons" under the laws of Canada.

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