>U.S. Embassy in Kabul advises U.S. citizens at number of airport gates to "leave immediately," noting security threats
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Court upholds death sentence for church shooter Dylann Roof
A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof’s conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying the legal record cannot even capture the “full horror” of what he did.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond rejected arguments that the young white man should have been ruled incompetent to stand trial in the shootings at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
In 2017, Roof became the first person in the U.S. sentenced to death for a federal hate crime. Authorities have said Roof opened fire during the closing prayer of a Bible study at the church, raining down dozens of bullets on those assembled. He was 21 at the time.
In his appeal, Roof’s attorneys argued that he was wrongly allowed to represent himself during sentencing, a critical phase of his trial. Roof successfully prevented jurors from hearing evidence about his mental health, “under the delusion,” his attorneys argued, that “he would be rescued from prison by white-nationalists — but only, bizarrely, if he kept his mental-impairments out of the public record.”
>There is a backdoor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9926785/Capitol-cop-shot-Ashli-Babbitt-reveal-identity-interview-NBC-tomorrow-night.html
Capitol cop who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 WILL reveal his identity for the first time during interview with NBC's Lester Holt tomorrow night
Capitol Police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt will reveal his identity on Thursday
He will sit down for an interview with Lester Holt of NBC News
An investigation concluded on Monday he acted in line with department policy
Babbitt was an Air Force veteran who served multiple tours in the Middle East
She was a known Trump supporter and reportedly pushed conservative conspiracy theories on social media
The DOJ said in April that it will not be bringing criminal charges against the officer due to insufficient evidence
The interview will be broadcast during the Nightly News with Lester Holt at 6.30pm ET on NBC
>We never know what someone is facing.
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