Dylann Roof is guilty of 33 counts in the Charleston shooting ca

The bullet holes have been patched in Emanuel AME’s fellowship hall.

Keep in mind that just last week, a jury concluded that it would not be able to reach a verdict in the murder trial of former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, who was caught on video shooting Walter Scott as the 50-year-old black man staggered in the opposite direction.

The decision was arrived at by jury members who convicted Roof on all the 33 charges leveled against him.

When pressed to say what he had done to his victims, Roof replied with a chuckle: “Well, I killed them, I guess”.

The stunning crime on June 17, 2015, became more revolting during six days of testimony. They showed the world in the most hard and testing of times that hatred would not win the day.

“He sat there with them, and he waited until they were at their most vulnerable”, Williams said Thursday. It is believed that Roof may have been radicalized by watching online content made by hate filled White supremacy groups. He also left behind carefully chosen pictures of himself holding the.45-caliber Glock he used in the killings, posing at historic Civil War and African-American sites and holding the Confederate flag.

Dylann Roof has said he doesn’t want jurors to consider his mental health in his trial because “psychology is a Jewish invention”. Now, he plans to represent himself during the penalty phase of his trial, which is slated to begin on January 3, after his attorneys pleaded unsuccessfully with U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel to allow them to present an insanity defense during the guilt phase of the trial. He chose to break their bodies.

“The defense will be in the position where they get to put in mitigating evidence, in other words”, Nettles said.

“All the things that David Bruck mentioned in his closing arguments are classic characteristics of a person with a severe mental illness”, O’Brien said. “It was a cold, calculated hatred that had been percolating for months”. Rev. Pinckney died from five gunshots.

The 200-year-old church is one of the oldest Black churches in the United States and it played an important role in bringing together the Black community during the slavery era, the civil rights movement, and more recently it has also served as a rallying point for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Christopher Adams, a Charleston lawyer who is the secretary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said the Roof case “is a bad crime that gets everyone’s attention”.

The trial opened with testimony from Felicia Sanders, one of the three survivors, telling the jury she swished her legs in the blood of her dead aunt and dying son so Roof would think she was dead.

An FBI agent testified that Roof’s father had told agents on the morning after the killings that Roof had a friend named Joey Meek and might be located in Lexington County.

“But now since we’re coming out on the other side”, the pastor said.