WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ideal Courtroom has rejected an enchantment from Dylann Roof, who challenged his dying sentence and conviction within the 2015 racist slayings of 9 individuals of a Black South Carolina congregation.
Roof had requested the courtroom to make a decision the right way to deal with disputes over psychological illness-related proof between capital defendants and their lawyers. The justices didn’t remark Tuesday in turning away the enchantment.
Roof fired his lawyers and represented himself all through the sentencing section of his capital trial, a part of his effort to dam proof doubtlessly portraying him as mentally sick.
Roof shot contributors at a Biblical studies consultation at Mom Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
A panel of appellate judges had in the past upheld his conviction and dying sentence.
Roof, 28, is on federal dying row at a maximum-security jail in Terre Haute, Indiana. He can nonetheless pursue different appeals.