{"id":57009,"date":"2017-01-11T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_jury_sentences_dylann_roof_to_death_for_emanuel_ame_church_m\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:00:15","slug":"south_carolina_jury_sentences_dylann_roof_to_death_for_emanuel_ame_church_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57009","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Jury sentences Dylann Roof to death for Emanuel AME Church massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours after he told a crowded courtroom \u201cI still feel like I had to do it,\u201d\u009d Dylann Roof was sentenced to death by a federal jury for carrying out a cold, calculated massacre inside Charleston&#8217;s Emanuel AME Church in a bid to spark a race war.<\/p>\n<p>The 12-member panel \u201d\u201c three white jurors, nine black \u201d\u201c deliberated for a little less than three hours before unanimously deciding that the 22-year-old white supremacist should die for his crimes rather than spend his life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>It will be up to the presiding judge to formally impose that sentence, but he is bound by law to follow the jury\u2019s decision. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel has scheduled the formal sentencing hearing for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/church_shooting\/jury-sentences-dylann-roof-to-death-for-emanuel-ame-church\/article_3c24cc44-d729-11e6-9e5d-2f037e89bddc.html\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours after he told a crowded courtroom \u201cI still feel like I had to do it,\u201d\u009d Dylann Roof was sentenced to death by a federal jury for carrying out a cold, calculated massacre inside Charleston&#8217;s Emanuel AME<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57009\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,54,175,118,168,114,183,184,120,108,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-capital-punishment","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}