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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Amalgamated flag is gone from South Carolina's Statehouse. The bullet holes have been patched in Emanuel AME'due south fellowship hall. And now Dylann Roof will almost certainly spend the residuum of his days in prison for killing nine black worshippers at the Charleston church.

A federal jury convicted Roof on all 33 counts Thursday. Those same jurors volition determine in another phase of the trial starting Jan. three whether he faces the death punishment or life in prison.

When testimony starts, Roof will be his own chaser, having again fired defense lawyers who fear Roof is taking over because he doesn't want them to present embarrassing evidence in their efforts to spare his life.

The stunning law-breaking on June 17, 2015, became more revolting during six days of testimony. Roof fired 77 shots in the fellowship hall. More 50 hit someone. Each of the nine people killed were struck at least five times. The medical examiner said the angles of some of the bullets seemed to show someone was holding a gun over victims who were lying all the same with their artillery pulled against them. A prosecutor said they were executed like animals.

Roof didn't hesitate to explicate his racist beliefs during his confession to FBI agents and left a handwritten journal full of his views, such as blacks being inferior to whites. He also left backside carefully chosen pictures of himself holding the .45-caliber Glock he used in the killings, posing at historic Civil War and African-American sites and holding the Confederate flag.

As the verdict was read, Roof merely stared ahead, much every bit he did the entire trial. Family members of victims held hands and squeezed ane another's arms. One woman nodded her head every time the clerk said "guilty."

Roof'due south lawyers presented no witnesses and tried in vain to introduce evidence that problems with Roof's mental health led to the killings. Simply U.S. Judge Richard Gergel said that kind of evidence is only permissible in the upcoming penalisation phase, when Roof will correspond himself.

In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan Williams mocked Roof for calling himself brave, maxim the real bravery came from the victims who tried to stop him.

"This defendant chose to take their lives. He chose to break their bodies. But he does not get to choose who they were," Williams said.

Williams' 50-minute endmost argument filled the courtroom with tension. At times, the prosecutor raised his vocalisation, saying Roof was a cold, calculated killer. Some family unit members of victims dabbed their eyes with tissues, and jurors appeared emotional when Williams, after apologizing to them, showed crime scene photos of each person killed aslope a minor picture of them while alive.

Those pictures included the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41, Emanuel AME's pastor and a state senator; Myra Thompson, 59, who taught Bible written report that dark; Cynthia Hurd, 54, a librarian; and Depayne Middleton-Md, 49, who friends said sang like an affections.

Likewise slain were Daniel "Dapper Dan" Simmons, 74, nicknamed for his shiny shoes and fine hats; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45, a loftier school track passenger vehicle; Ethel Lance, 70, the church sexton who kept the edifice immaculately clean; Susie Jackson, 87, who sang in the choir; and Tywanza Sanders, 26, Jackson's nephew and an aspiring poet.

Defense lawyer David Bruck conceded Roof committed the slayings, but he asked jurors to await into his head and see what caused him to become so total of hatred, calling him a suicidal loner who never grasped the gravity of what he did.

Survivor Felicia Sanders has her own theory. She thinks Roof is a coward, likewise, because he refused to expect at her as she testified. She refused to say afterward the verdicts were read whether she wants Roof to die for his crimes.

She noted how Roof told the FBI he had no friends.

"He had ix friends sitting in the church that dark," said Sanders, who testified Pinckney warmly welcomed Roof, who sat with the Bible study for 45 minutes before opening fire during the closing prayer. "If only he had waited right after nosotros said the prayer, we would've all gathered around him and found out what his needs were what his wants and invited him to come back."

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A federal jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of nine black church members in Southward Carolina.

The jury reached its verdict after less than two hours of deliberations. They convicted the 22-year-old white man of detest crimes and other charges.

They will reconvene next month to determine whether he should get the death penalty or be sentenced to life in prison.

Roof only stared alee as the verdict was read, much as he has throughout the trial.

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