Dylan Roof Case

When it came to the evidence and forensics involved with the Oklahoma City bombing, there was a plethora of items to be used against Timothy McVeigh to show his guilt. To prove McVeigh’s guilt, the prosecution needed a motive. This was not going to be hard to do when McVeigh himself was so outspoken against the federal government. As stated earlier, McVeigh was upset regarding Ruby Ridge and also the raid at the Branch Davidian compound. But McVeigh also had what was known as the “Turner Diaries”, which were antigovernment leaflets that the prosecution stated were blueprints for the bombing ("Prosecutors almost through", 1997). McVeigh’s very own sister also testified against him stating how angry he was at the government, and that he was

On the evening of June 17 2015, a group of twelve black church members accepted a stranger into their bible study. The stranger sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes, and then during the final prayer, when everyone's eyes were closed, he pulled out a gun and started firing. Dylann Roof killed nine of the twelve people present, only three survived. He was convicted of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms charges. He has just recently been sentenced to death. Roof decided to defend himself and called on no witnesses and did not produce any evidence for his case. He did not even ask jurors to spare his life. The prosecution however called around 38 witnesses, including family and friends

Bang, bang this was the noise the crowd heard in the Methodist Episcopal Church after Dylann Roof fired his firearm. In the article from the New York Times on July 10, 2015 “Background Check Flaw Let Dylann Roof Buy Gun F.B.I Says” was written by Micheal S. Schimidt. Too many people can easily walk into stores that sells gun and get one with minimal wait time.

Dylann Roof a 21-year old white gunman murder nine African-America at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. Including the church’s pastor Rev. Clementa Pinckney. Whom Roof sat with bible study group for about an hour Wednesday evening before pulling out his weapon and firing and reloading several times before fleeing the scene. This was reported as a “race war” that Dylann Roof wanted to start from photo shown of him wearing apartheid-era South African and Rhodesian flag pathed to his jacket. There was also a website registered to Dylann address with a history diatribe against blacks, Jews and Hispanics that race played a huge part in this shooting. He also drove a car with a Confederate flag on the front plate,

Dylan Roof's actions in South Carolina should be regarded as an act of terrorism. The acts themselves were not only planned to install fear into the public but, to create a greater divide between races. In the months leading up to the attacks Dylan increasingly withdrew from society and started to adopt more and more radical behavior. A blog he ran stated that one of the purposes of the attack was to start a race war. In addition, Charleston was picked for the target city because it had one of the highest ratios of African Americans to Whites. The attack alone may not be a form of domestic terrorism however, the motives behind the attack certainly push it into that category.

Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old murderer of nine, was arrested for his crimes in June. According to many Roof was just a very confused and mentally ill young man, but surprisingly he was completely sane when he committed these murders. When asked about his reasoning behind his actions, Roof had this to say, “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case... this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders...At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of

Brock Turner was an above average 19 year-old athlete and student at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio. While in high school, Turner was a three-time All American and was enrolled at Stanford University on a swimming scholarship. He was offered a scholarship to Stanford and he took it without any thought. One thing he never thought about was getting indicted of rape of an intoxicated person, rape of an unconscious person, assault with intent to rape an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object, and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Everything that was just listed, is what he was charged with the night of his felony.

Dylan Roof, the accused killer of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, SC, church, is facing 33 federal indictments, including hate crime and church arson charges that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted.

Dylann Roof will face the death penalty. Roof is accused of killing nine people during a Bible study on July 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Prosecutors are trying to get Roof the death penalty because he has killed more than two people, and other lives were put into risks. Prosecutors also mentioned that Roof does not feel any remorse for the killings that he committed. Roof also have some federal charges, this includes: hate crimes and obstruction of the practice of religion.

Dylann Roof, killer of nine innocent people, was taken into custody two weeks ago Thursday morning. Some would say God forgives him, and some would like to strike back. Dylann walked into a bible study and shot three men and six women, in order to start a ‘race war’. It was his belief that white people should stand with their own, and war against other colors.

President and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human rights, Wade Henderson, in his column, “The pursuit of capital punishment for Dylann Roof is a step backwards,” criticize the pursuit of capital punishment as a sentence for a racist-driven criminal case. Mr. Henderson's purpose is to emphasize the negative consequences of pursuing a capital punishment for Dylann Roof's criminal case, which would have an negative impact on the community. He adopts a moralistic tone to appeal to the community's sense of justice and equality.

Alexander’s family would like Arias to receive the death penalty. The day that Arias was found guilty, David Hall, Alexander’s friend, made a statement to reporters as he was leaving court saying that he wanted Arias to receive the death penalty. Hall said, “Five long years… of lying, manipulating. Now the citizens of Arizona have spoken. If what she did to Travis does not justify the death penalty in America today, then what do we have it for?” (Gaynor A4). The jury should take in consideration what his family and friends want since he was taken so quickly and violently from their lives.

It is identified by Kaplan (2015) that on June 17 at 20:16 pm, Dylann Roof, a white guy who was said to be 21 year-old, captured on the CCTV camera surveillance while entered the historic black church and sat on a long seat at the back of the room. He spent at least an hour observing the situation

“Let me end by saying that nothing that I have heard so far leads me to beleve that Dylann Roof was mentally ill. I do not expect that my opinion will change.” (Greenberg,

The death penalty is a corrupt form of legal justice. For example, “…Defendants in about one-third of the Texas cases were represented at trial by an attorney who had been or later was suspended or otherwise sanctioned…”(Leibman). This use of fraudulent attorneys in a case can lead to enough inaccuracies in the evidence to wrongfully execute a person. This action is against the constitutional right given to us of equal justice for all. In addition, “…One of you two is gonna hang for this. Since you're the nigger, you're elected…”(Texas Police Officer). A Texas police officer said this to 2 men, one black and one white that were connected to the murder of a 17-year-old girl. Race plays a big part in the sentence of guilty or innocent. However, supporters of the death penalty claim “…that it enforces the laws by issuing strict punishment to the offenders…”(President George Bush). The death