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Dylann Roof pleads guilty to state charges in church massacre
Source: CNN
Dylann Roof, who shot to death nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday afternoon to state charges in the killings.
Roof was sentenced to death in January by a federal jury for the June 2015 massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The deal reached in the Charleston County Courthouse includes a life sentence. It means no state trial or sentencing phase will be necessary.
The federal death sentence stands.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/us/dylann-roof-guilty-plea-state-trial/index.html?adkey=bn
