The jury s decision had to be unanimous to sentence roof to death.
Is dylann roof getting death penalty.
This is the first time a death penalty verdict was rendered in a federal hate crimes case the justice department said.
Dylann roof the convicted shooter in the assault on emanuel ame church in charleston south carolina that left a total of 12 victims killing nine of them was sentenced to.
White supremacist dylann roof on tuesday appealed his federal convictions and death sentence in the 2015 massacre of nine black church members in south carolina arguing that he was.
Lethal injection drugs are hard to get as companies refuse to sell for executions cnn dylann roof just became the first person convicted of a federal hate crime to get the death penalty and he.