On january 11 2017 he was sentenced to death for those crimes.
Why was dylan roof charged on the federal level.
Critics say the federal charges against dylann roof the man accused of killing nine people in a historically black church in charleston s c on june 17 aren t what they should be.
Dylann roof was apprehended between 10 and 11 am on 18 june 2015 and the circumstances under which he was provided with food from burger king prior to his arraignment were not entirely clear.
Roof became the first person to be ordered executed for a federal hate crime when he was sentenced to death for fatally shooting nine black church members at emanuel ame church in charleston south.
Roof was convicted last month of 33 federal charges including murder and hate crimes.
Dylann storm roof a ninth grade dropout who learned to hate black people on the internet was convicted thursday of 33 counts of federal hate crimes for slaughtering nine black.
On december 15 2016 roof was convicted in federal court of all 33 federal charges including hate crimes against him stemming from the shooting.
They jury returned after deliberating over his sentence for about three hours on tuesday to announce their.
The department of justice charged dylann roof the white 21 year old man who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers in charleston south carolina on june 17 with murder attempted murder and.