A US federal appeals court upheld the death sentence against American Dylann Roof on Wednesday. He shot down nine black parishioners from a church in South Carolina in 2015.–
Six years after the racist massacre in Charleston, a federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of American Dylann Roof. He coldly shot nine black parishioners from a church in South Carolina in 2015. A killing that shocked the world. “No clinical summary or in-depth legal analysis can fully account for the atrocity of Roof’s act. His crimes place him under the harshest sentence that a just society can render ”, concluded the judges of the court of Richmond, in their judgment rendered unanimously.
Convinced of the supremacy of White Men over other races he considers inferior, Dylann Roof opened fire 77 times in a Methodist church in Charleston on June 17, 2015, riddling nine black worshipers who came from the United States with bullets. welcome with open arms for a Bible study session. The young man was then 21 years old.
Ni regrets ni excuses
This shooting had all the more marked American and international public opinion as it had bloodied a place symbolizing the fight against slavery. The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church brings together the oldest black community in this historic plantation-era city in the southeastern United States.
In early 2017, the young extremist was sentenced to the death penalty, without having expressed any regrets or apologies. Before the Court of Appeal, his lawyers tried to obtain the annulment of his sentence, arguing that the trial judge should never have acceded to the accused’s request to ensure his own defense. But the appellate magistrates swept this argument aside. The convict, now 27 and held in a penitentiary, is not at risk of execution in the short term, as President Biden’s administration last month imposed a moratorium on federal executions.
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