The Supreme Court refused to hear the death-penalty appeal of an avowed white supremacist who gunned down nine people at a black church in South Carolina in 2015 in an effort to spark a race war.
The court announced in an unsigned order on Oct. 11 that it would not take the case of Dylann Storm Roof, a self-described white nationalist and the first individual in the United States ever to be sentenced to death for a federal hate crime.
No justices dissented from the order.
The Biden administration had urged the court not to hear the case.
Roof, now 28, dismissed his lawyers and represented himself during the sentencing portion of his trial….