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USA: DYLANN ROOF SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDERS OF NINE BLACK CHURCH MEMBERS

January 10, 2017: Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who shot dead nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to death by a federal jury.
Roof, who was convicted last month of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death, was condemned to death by a unanimous jury after about three hours of deliberations. Roof is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes. Federal judge Richard Gergel will formally deliver Roof's sentence on January 11 morning at the Charleston court. The verdict reached by the jury is binding.
Earlier on Tuesday, the 22-year-old threw away his one last chance to plead for his life in front of the jurors, telling them: "I still feel like I had to do it. "I have the right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I'm not sure what good it would do anyway".
The attacker specifically picked out Emanuel AME Church, the South's oldest black church, to carry out the massacre, Assistant US Attorney Jay Richardson said. A Bible study group at the Church was just beginning its closing prayer when Roof, a self-avowed Nazi and Ku Klux Klan sympathiser opened fire, killing nine people, ranging in age from 26 to 87.
Roof stood over some of the fallen victims, shooting them again as they lay on the floor, Richardson said. He did not explain his actions to jurors, saying only that "anyone who hates anything in their mind has a good reason for it".
In his FBI confession, Roof said that he hoped the massacre would bring back segregation or start a race war. In notes confiscated from Roof in prison in August 2015, he wrote that he was "not sorry".
"I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed," the notes said. Roof represented himself in the sentencing phase of the trial, against the advice of his lawyers and the judge. He called no witnesses and offered no evidence for the jury to consider.
Capital punishment is only rarely meted out in federal cases, in part because violent crimes more typically are tried under state laws. (Sources: aljazeera.com, 10/01/2017)

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NIGERIA: ARMED ROBBER SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING
USA: PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMUTES TWO DEATH SENTENCES
BANGLADESH: 26 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR NARAYANGANJ KILLINGS
WASHINGTON (USA): PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE STATE
MALAYSIA: GUINEAN COLLEGE STUDENT SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
IRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
BAHRAIN: THREE SHI'ITES CONVICTED OF KILLING POLICEMEN EXECUTED
INDIA: PRESIDENT CONVERTS 4 TRIBALS’ DEATH SENTENCES TO LIFE TERMS
IRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER EXECUTED IN KERMAN PRISON
IRAN: 14 PRISONERS EXECUTED AT KARAJ CENTRAL PRISON
IRAN: AT LEAST 5 PRISONERS EXECUTED AT RAJAI SHAHR PRISON
FLORIDA (USA): FIVE COUNTIES DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SERIOUSLY MENTALLY IMPAIRED DEFENDANTS
IRAN: ‘ENSAMBLE CONTRE LA PEINE DE MORT’ ALERTS FIFA THAT IN IRAN PEOPLE ARE EXECUTED IN FOOTBALL STADIUMS
TEXAS (USA): CHRISTOPHER WILKINS EXECUTED
MALAYSIA: BRUNEIAN MAN AND MALAYSIAN ACCOMPLICE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
PAKISTAN: MAN HANGED OVER MURDERING TWO PEOPLE
INDIA: DEATH SENTENCE TO COUPLE FOR MURDERING DALIT WOMAN
OHIO OBTAINS HUNDREDS OF VIALS OF LETHAL DRUGS
BAHRAIN: DEATH SENTENCES UPHELD IN KILLING OF UAE OFFICER
SRI LANKA: TEN PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH BY BADULLA AND MATARA HIGH COURTS
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QATAR: DEATH PENALTY CONFIRMED FOR TWO FROM TAMIL NADU
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