Dylann Roof

The US Supreme Court declined to hear Dylann Roof's challenge to the judge who presided over his federal death penalty trial for the 2015 massacre of nine Black churchgoers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof had argued the trial judge should have been disqualified over comments made during proceedings. The decision leaves his convictions and death sentence in place while remaining appeals continue.

Dylann Roof, who killed nine worshippers at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church in 2015, has had his latest attempt to appeal to the US Supreme Court rebuffed. Local outlets in South Carolina report the high court declined to take up the case, leaving his federal death sentence and convictions in place. The ruling closes off another avenue for Roof, whose 2017 appeal was previously rejected by the justices.

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Dylann Roof, the man sentenced to death for killing nine Black parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015. The decision lets his conviction and death sentence stand, closing off a federal avenue for relief.

The US Supreme Court declined to hear Dylann Roof's attempt to disqualify the judge who presided over his federal death penalty trial, ending his bid to remove her. Roof, sentenced to death for the 2015 Charleston church massacre that killed nine Black parishioners, argued the judge should have been replaced. The decision leaves his conviction and sentence in place as appeals continue.