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The Supreme Court has declined to entertain an appeal from Dylann Roof, the convicted gunman responsible for the 2015 racist massacre of nine African American churchgoers in South Carolina. Roof, who was seeking to challenge both his conviction and death sentence, found no relief as the justices opted not to comment while rejecting his appeal on Tuesday, Your Content has learned.
Roof, now 28, had directed the Court’s attention towards the handling of disputes over evidence related to mental illness between capital defendants and their legal representatives. This plea comes in the wake of his death sentence for the heinous act committed during a Bible study session at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The Supreme Court’s decision to reject Roof’s appeal effectively upholds the lower court rulings, leaving his conviction and death sentence intact. Roof’s attack, one of the deadliest on a religious institution in U.S. history, was motivated by racial hatred and resulted in a nationwide outcry against racially motivated violence,‘according to ABC News.
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