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Dylann Roof trial: Closing arguments to follow days of chilling testimony (with clip)
"...Facing the death penalty
If jurors in this trial decide to spare Roof's life, he could still face a death sentence. He's also set to be tried on state murder charges, and prosecutors have said they'll also seek the death penalty in that case.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was the last person to get a federal death sentence. He's one of 62 federal prisoners awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit.
Only three federal inmates have been executed in the United States since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988 after a 16-year moratorium:
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11, 2001, six years after he killed 168 people.
Juan Raul Garza on June 19, 2001, eight years after he was convicted of running a marijuana drug ring and killing three people.
Louis Jones on March 18, 2003, eight years after he kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride."
[video=cnn;us/2016/12/15/dylann-roof-murder-trial-death-penalty-jpm-orig.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/us/dylann-roof-trial/index.html[/video]
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/us/dylann-roof-trial
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"...Facing the death penalty
If jurors in this trial decide to spare Roof's life, he could still face a death sentence. He's also set to be tried on state murder charges, and prosecutors have said they'll also seek the death penalty in that case.
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was the last person to get a federal death sentence. He's one of 62 federal prisoners awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington-based nonprofit.
Only three federal inmates have been executed in the United States since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988 after a 16-year moratorium:
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on June 11, 2001, six years after he killed 168 people.
Juan Raul Garza on June 19, 2001, eight years after he was convicted of running a marijuana drug ring and killing three people.
Louis Jones on March 18, 2003, eight years after he kidnapped and murdered 19-year-old Army Pvt. Tracie McBride."
[video=cnn;us/2016/12/15/dylann-roof-murder-trial-death-penalty-jpm-orig.cnn]http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/us/dylann-roof-trial/index.html[/video]
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/09/us/dylann-roof-trial
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