A federal jury sentenced Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof was sentenced to death on Tuesday evening.
Before the jury came to it’s conclusion, Roof spoke and he showed no remorse.
“In my confession to the FBI I told them that I had to do it, and obviously that’s not really true. … I didn’t have to do anything,” Roof said as he made his own five-minute closing argument in the penalty phase of his federal trial. “But what I meant when I said that was, I felt like I had to do it, and I still do feel like I had to do it.”
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But, Roof asked for his life to be spared.
“From what I’ve been told, I have a right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I’m not sure what good that will do anyway,” Roof said. “But what I will say is only one of you has to disagree with the other jurors.”
Roof was convicted last month of federal murder and hate crimes charges after killing nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015.
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