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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 370

Dylann Roof

White supremacist Dylann Roof enters the court room at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 10, 2017. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP)
August 25, 2021, 10:00 pm
Charleston church shooter’s death sentence upheld
Federal appeals court says Dylann Roof’s 2015 slaying of 9 black worshipers qualifies him for the ‘harshest penalty that a just society can impose’
By MEG KINNARD and Denise Lavoie
In this Friday, June 19, 2015 file photo a crowd of people pray outside the Emanuel AME Church, after a memorial for the nine people killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, S.C. .(AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
January 23, 2019, 6:00 am
Pittsburgh survivors attend service at black church attacked in 2015
Tree of Life Congregants travel to South Carolina for ceremony at Emanuel AME Church, where 9 worshipers were killed, before taking part in a annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade
By JTA
People fly into the air as a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP)
October 2, 2017, 3:51 am
White supremacist attacks stoke US debate over need for domestic terrorism laws
Despite similarities, homegrown extremists are not prosecuted in the same way as perpetrators ‘with ties to a foreign entity’
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS
In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, South Carolina shooting suspect Dylann Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
September 21, 2017, 4:58 pm
Racist church shooter can’t fire Jewish and Indian lawyers
Dylann Roof, who killed 9 worshipers in Charleston, called his court appointed attorneys ‘political and biological enemies’
By AP
White supremacist Dylann Roof enters the court room at the Charleston County Judicial Center to enter his guilty plea on murder charges in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 10, 2017. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP)
September 19, 2017, 9:20 am
Convicted church killer wants to fire Jewish, Indian lawyers
Dylann Roof, who killed 9 black worshipers in Charleston, says ethnicity of his attorneys is a barrier to ‘effective communication’
By JTA
Temple Emanu-El in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. (Google Maps Street View via JTA)
February 16, 2017, 10:03 pm
S. Carolina man arrested for planning synagogue shooting
Benjamin McDowell sent out picture of Florida house of prayer, said he wanted to commit attack ‘in the spirit of Dylann Roof’
By Agencies
Shmuley Boteach
January 11, 2017, 2:57 pm
Shmuley Boteach
Dylann Roof deserves to die
It takes hatred of the Charleston church murderer and his racist ilk to generate actions that stop the orgy of murder
In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, South Carolina shooting suspect Dylann Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
January 11, 2017, 1:31 am
South Carolina church shooter sentenced to death
White supremacist Dylann Roof, 22, refused to apologize or even explain 2015 shooting rampage at historic black church
By MEG KINNARD and Jeffrey Collins
Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
December 19, 2016, 1:39 pm
US church shooter won’t use ‘Jewish invented’ psychology in defense
Facing death penalty for killing 9 worshipers in Charleston, Dylann Roof will not call in mental health experts in bid to save his life
By Jeffrey Collins
April 2015 photo released by the Lexington County (S.C.) Detention Center shows Dylann Roof, 21. (Lexington County Detention Center/via AP)
December 10, 2016, 1:34 am
US jury sees Hitler-supporting church shooter’s calm confession
Dylann Roof, who killed 9 in a South Carolina church in 2015 armed with eight ammunition magazines, says last unspent one in honor of Nazi leader
By Olivia Hampton
Josh Mandel, the Ohio state treasurer (Citizens for Josh Mandel/JTA)
June 24, 2015, 4:13 pm
Despite Charleston massacre, Ohio treasurer keeps white supremacist donation
Jewish politician Josh Mandel refuses to return grant from organization said to inspire gunman who killed 9
By JTA
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley speaks next to Congressman James Clyburn (L) and Senator Tim Scott (R) during a news conference in the South Carolina State House on June 22, 2015. (Tim Dominick/The State via AP)
June 23, 2015, 2:15 pm
South Carolina governor calls for lowering of rebel flag
Lawmakers in Mississippi and Tennessee also demand removal of Confederate symbols
By AP
Parishioners sing at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. on Sunday, June 21, 2015, four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of it's pastor and eight others (AP Photo/David Goldman, Pool)
June 21, 2015, 6:24 pm
Insistent message of love as Charleston church mourns its dead
Sunday service is first since Dylann Roof opened fire in Bible study group, killing nine including pastor, saying he targeted them because they were black
By AP
Illustrative -- US President Barack Obama speaks about the shooting deaths of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, at the White House in Washington, DC, June 18, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
June 21, 2015, 9:47 am
Obama: US gun violence 33 times that of Israel
President says ‘expressions of sympathy aren’t enough,’ something must be done to curb firearm homicide rate
By ToI Staff, AP and AFP
The Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2015, in Columbia, South Carolina (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
June 21, 2015, 6:21 am
After shooting, Confederate flag sets off Republican debate
Romney says southern banner seen as ‘a symbol of racial hatred’; Lindsey Graham: It’s ‘a part of who we are’
By Steve Peoples
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