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By JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) â A South Carolina prosecutor decided Monday not to charge two jail employees who stunned a mentally ill Black man 10 times and kneeled on his back until he stopped breathing, calling the guards videotaped actions âdamning,â but not against the law.
The Charleston County jail guards in January were following their aggressive training in handling inmates, so Solicitor Scarlett Wilson said she could not prove the guards intended to kill Jamal Sutherland, who at the time was refusing to go to his bond hearing.
âThis is how they were trained, and they didnât have a reason to expect this outcome because they had done it so many times before,â said Wilson, who issued a report with links to video footage and other information.
While their client sits on federal death row for the killings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, the attorneys for Dylann Roof are now arguing that his “delusional belief” that he would be saved by white supremacists should have been enough evidence to a judge to prove he wasn’t competent when he was standing trial.
The man on federal death row for the racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina church congregation is making his appellate argument that his conviction and death sentence should be overturned.
Oral arguments in the case of Dylann Roof are scheduled to be held Tuesday before a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, Virginia. Appellate Judge Jay Richardson, who as an assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuted Roof’s case, is not part of the panel.
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