Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof challenges courts confirmation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : If his appeal fails, he can file a 2255 appeal or request a trial court to review the constitutionality of his caseDylann Roof, 27, (pictured in 2015) has filed an appeal in the 4th Circuit to challenge the court's confirmation of his 2015 conviction, where he received nine life sentences for shooting nine people in a South Carolina churchConvicted killer Dylann Roof's lawyers made another attempt to spare him the death penalty on Wednesday, appealing a federal court's confirmation that he was mentally competent to stand trial after he fatally shot nine people in a South Carolina church in 2015.
40% : After his federal trial, Roof was given nine consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty in 2017 to state murder charges, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial.
38% : Roof (pictured in his prison uniform in 2017) pleaded guilty to state murder charges and awaits the death penalty.
30% : The review comes after a historic run of capital punishment at the end of the Trump administration, which carried out 13 executions in six months.

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