Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2024
Abstract
On June 17, 2015, twenty-one-year-old Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, sat, and prayed with nine congregants for at least an hour before pulling out a handgun and killing Cynthia Hurd, Susan Jackson, Ethel Lance, DePayne Middleton-Doctor, State Senator Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Tywanza Sanders, Rev. Daniel Simmons, Sharonda Singleton, and Myra Thompson.' He left three survivors, explicitly so they could "tell the story" of his killings. Roof did so for his own demented reasons; his racist rage was laid out publicly in an online manifesto, and he hoped his murders would begin a race war. Roof was ultimately convicted of a range of murder and hate crimes.
Recommended Citation
Yankah, Ekow N. "Should Racially Vulnerable Victims Show Mercy?" Texas Law Review 102, no. 7 (2024): 1515-1540.
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