The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. April 11, 2017 South Carolina: Dylann Roof Pleads Guilty to 9 Counts of Murder in State Court ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In Charleston, South Carolina, convicted murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof pleaded guilty to nine counts of murder in state court on Monday. Roof has already been convicted and sentenced to death on federal charges of murdering nine black worshipers, including Pastor Clementa Pinckney, at the historic Emanuel AME Church in June 2015. .