COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The long-awaited federal death penalty trial of the white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church is scheduled to get underway next week with the final seating of a jury. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ruled Thursday that he anticipates the jury of […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys in South Carolina have submitted proposed jury questionnaires for the upcoming federal death penalty trial of Dylann Roof in the Charleston church shooting and want a judge to keep them confidential. Both defense and prosecution attorneys submitted the proposed questionnaires in a joint motion Monday. They say the questions need […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof, the white man charged in the massacre of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church, was assaulted Thursday by a black inmate at the South Carolina jail where he is being held, a law official said. Dwayne Stafford ran down the stairs from his cell after Roof went into […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Attorneys for the man charged with killing nine people at a Charleston church are challenging federal prosecutors’ intention to seek the death penalty against him. Lawyers for Dylann Roof argue in a motion filed Monday that the death penalty and federal death penalty law are unconstitutional. Their motion asks that a […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Just down from the Emanuel AME church — where nine black […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The federal death penalty trial of a white man charged with shooting and killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at their Charleston church will be held in November, a judge announced Tuesday. Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel set Nov. 7 to begin selecting jurors for the federal trial […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The decision on whether the federal government will seek the death penalty against a white man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church is now before U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a prosecutor told a federal judge on Tuesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson told […]
After disagreeing on a $5.3 million commission for the flag and repairs for the museum, a $3.6 million budget was considered.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A nonviolent past and lack of hard drug use were factors cited by a judge who lowered bond for a man accused of failing to tell authorities all he knew about a friend accused of massacring nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church. U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges lowered Joey […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The man accused of slaying nine parishioners as they worshipped at a South Carolina church was expected in court Friday to face dozens of federal charges, including hate crimes and obstructing the practice of religion. Dylann Roof, 21, was scheduled to be arraigned in Charleston. The hearing, which was expected to […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white man charged with killing nine black parishioners at a Charleston church has been ordered to provide handwriting samples to investigators. Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson on Friday directed 21-year-old Dylann Roof to provide the samples. Following Roof’s arrest the day after the June 17 shootings, several search warrants were executed […]
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Both the FBI and a county sheriff’s department agency promise to review a series of mistakes that allowed South Carolina church shooting suspect Dylann Roof to get a gun he never should have been allowed to buy. Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon told The Associated Press on Monday that a clerk […]
