COVE

This image was taken after the shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, after a shooting that killed 9 people. In it, it is clear to see the hundreds of people gathered outside the church, mourning and praying for the victims and the communities. Hundreds of reporters flooded to the church that day, desperate to get a peak at the church and what was going on outside of it. As the days and weeks followed, reporters began to fade and people went back to their normal, albeit slightly heavier, lives. Dylann Roof was pleaded guilty all murder charges and became the first person in the United States to be sentenced to death for a hate crime. As of August of this year, the judges in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that sentence when Roof tried to appeal it. However, the Associated Press with NPR writes that in July 2021 the Attorney General put a stop to all federal executions for further review among the Department of Justice. Though his future remains unclear, Roof will most certainly stay locked away for a long time.

Works Cited

Kennedy, Merrit. “Dylann Roof Pleads Guilty to State Murder Charges for Charleston Church Attack.” NPR, NPR, 10 Apr. 2017, www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/10/523279175/dylann-roof-pleads-....

Press, The Associated. “Judges Uphold the Death Sentence for Dylann Roof Who Killed 9 Black Churchgoers.” NPR, NPR, 25 Aug. 2021, www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1031086866/dylann-roof-death-sentence-upheld-char.... Web. 

“Charleston Church Shooting.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston_church_shooting. Web.