Dylann Roof‘s appeal to the Supreme Court, which questioned his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racial murders of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, was denied.
Dylann Roof had requested the court to resolve disagreements between capital defendants and their attorneys regarding evidence linked to mental illness. When rejecting the appeal on Tuesday, the justices made no comments.
As part of his effort to suppress evidence that would have implicated him as having a mental illness, Roof fired his attorneys and represented himself during the sentencing portion of his death trial.
Participants at a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, were shot by a roof.
His conviction and death sentence had previously been upheld by a panel of appeal judges.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, a maximum-security facility houses Roof, 28, who is on the federal execution row. He can still make additional appeals.
