CHARLESTON, S.C — (AP) A State judge gave 9 life sentences to Dylann Roof on murder charges in 2015 South Carolina church massacre.
Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof plead guilty to state murder charges, leaving him to await federal execution and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial.
The 23-year-old Roof entered his plea Monday to all state charges against him, including nine counts of murder. It’s part of a deal with prosecutors in exchange for a life prison sentence.
Roof was sentenced to death earlier this year on 33 federal crimes. The self-avowed white supremacist was unapologetic during that trial as he listened to survivors and relatives describe the hail of bullets that began when parishioners closed their eyes to pray during a June 2015 Bible study at the historically black Emanuel AME Church.
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