Sometime in the six weeks after he killed nine people at this city’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Dylann S. Roof wrote in a journal that he had “not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.” On Wednesday morning, standing before the jurors who will decide whether he should be put to death, Mr. Roof again offered no apology or explanation for the massacre.
“There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically,” Mr. Roof, who is representing himself during the penalty phase of his trial in Federal District Court, told the jury of 10 women and two men during a strikingly brief opening statement.
By then, Courtroom No. 6 had already been jarred by Mr. Roof’s journal, which amounted to a post-arrest manifesto of white supremacy.
“I would like to make it crystal clear I do not regret what I did,” Mr. Roof wrote in the jailhouse journal, which officials seized in August 2015. “I am not sorry. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”
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