It took a 12-person federal jury a little over two hours to convict Roof on all counts, including 24 that fall under federal hate crime statutes. Now the jury will decide whether Roof spends the rest of his life in prison, or is sent to death row for last year’s massacre at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The jury will break for Christmas and return after the holidays on Jan. 3 to begin debating the 22-year-old convicted mass killer’s fate.
