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Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 18, 2016
Charleston gunman will not use mental health to avoid death penalty
Convicted murderer Dylann Roof will not ask jurors to take his mental health into consideration next month during the death penalty phase of his trial for killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2015
South Carolina to seek death penalty for accused, 21, in Charleston church massacre
South Carolina will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, who is charged with the June murders of nine black worshippers at a Charleston church, a state prosecutor said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 23, 2015
Accused in Charleston church massacre charged with federal hate crimes
The white man suspected of murdering nine black people during Bible study at a South Carolina church was charged on Wednesday with federal hate crimes, adding to multiple state counts that raise the possibility of a death sentence.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 27, 2015
Obama calls for racial harmony, gun control at funeral of slain pastor in Charleston
An impassioned President Barack Obama led thousands of mourners in singing "Amazing Grace" on Friday at the funeral of a slain pastor in Charleston and urged Americans to eliminate symbols of oppression and racism, including the Confederate battle flag.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 23, 2015
South Carolina governor poised to have Confederate flag removed from capitol
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to call on Monday for the Confederate battle flag to be taken down from the state capitol grounds, five days after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine black worshipers at a historic Charleston church.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2015
What attracts people to white supremacy?
Supremacists offer disaffected whites someone to love and someone to hate, along with an assurance that the problem isn't in you, but in 'them.'
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Residents of South Carolina town once home to Charleston shooting suspect say they are not like him
At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2015
Charleston shooting echoes 1963 Birmingham church murders that helped galvanize civil rights movement
Half a century ago in the deeply Southern city of Birmingham, a racially motivated attack on a black church left four young girls dead and helped galvanize a civil rights movement that changed voting laws across the United States.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Slain Charleston pastor to blame for gun deaths, says National Rifle Association executive
A National Rifle Association executive in Texas has come under fire for suggesting that a South Carolina lawmaker and pastor who was slain with eight members of his congregation bears some of the blame for his opposition to permitting concealed handguns in church.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
South Carolina shootings reignite debate over Confederate flag at statehouse
The shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston has revived demands that South Carolina stop flying the Confederate flag on the grounds of the statehouse, an issue that still divides residents of a state haunted by its legacy of slavery.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2015
Obama says church shooting exposes 'blight' of racism, need for gun laws
President Barack Obama on Friday said a mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina exposed the "blight" of racism still present in America, and railed against critics who have accused him of politicizing a tragedy to talk about tougher gun laws.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Hate crimes are not uncommon in the United States
U.S. law enforcement authorities are investigating the slayings of nine people by a white gunman Wednesday night at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, as a hate crime.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Charleston massacre suspect Roof had past brushes with police
His uncle worried he was cooped up in his room too much. The few images of him found easily online suggest he had a fascination with white supremacy. And for his birthday this year, his father bought the young man a pistol, the uncle said.
WORLD / Politics
Jun 19, 2015
Charleston church aftermath: Republicans avoid talk of race, guns
Republican presidential candidates steered clear on Thursday of addressing the role gun rights and racial tensions may have played in a deadly mass shooting in South Carolina as Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton called for the United States to face what she called the "hard truths" underpinning...
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 19, 2015
Charleston's storied 'Mother Emanuel' grieves loss of gifted pastor-politician
Two months before the Rev. Clementa Pinckney was gunned down during a Bible study at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, he stood before state lawmakers seamlessly blending his faith and politics in urging them to pass a law to protect his community.

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