Roof was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Franklin Bennett Roof (nicknamed Benn), a carpenter and a construction contractor, [14] and Amelia "Amy" Cowles, a bartender.

Apr 21, 2025 · The full court filing can be read below. Convicted church shooter Dylann Roof and his attorneys filed a petition to change or vacate his death sentence on April 17, 2025.

Dec 23, 2024 · President Joe Biden 's decision to leave mass murderer Dylann Roof on federal death row while commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 men has sparked a backlash from death penalty …

Apr 23, 2025 · Dylann Roof, the man convicted and sentenced in the 2015 deaths of nine people at Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina, is making a bid to avoid the death penalty.

Dec 23, 2024 · Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof, 30, was one of three federal death row inmates who was not given a reprieve by Biden, and he will remain on the execution list, Newsweek reported.

Dec 22, 2025 · A federal jury sentenced Dylann Roof to death for killing nine black parishioners in 2015 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Apr 22, 2025 · Attorneys for white supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof are still working at overturning the killer’s death sentence, which, of course, is more of a chance than Roof gave the …

Apr 21, 2025 · Roof was sentenced to death in 2017 for killing nine Black church members during a bible study. The decision made him the first person ordered to be executed for a federal hate crime.

Apr 22, 2025 · CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Dylann Roof, the man who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C., filed a motion to vacate his death penalty sentence on the basis that his defense …

Dylann Storm Roof is an American mass murderer, white supremacist and neo-Nazi who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting. During a Bible study on June 17, ...