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Self-avowed white supremacist Dylann Storm Roof was found guilty Thursday on all 33 federal charges related to the June 2015 massacre at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine black parishioners dead.

The federal charges consisted of 12 hate crime charges, 12 counts of religious obstruction, and nine counts of using a firearm to kill.

Federal prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty for 18 of those charges.

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Roof, 22, stood with “hands at his sides and his face emotionless,” as District Judge Richard Gergel read “guilty” 33 times, Alan Binder reported for the New York Times.

Proceedings began on Dec.

7, after a psychiatric evaluation found Roof competent to stand trial. The jury — representative of Charleston’s racial makeup with three black jurors — deliberated for a little over two hours before returning a verdict. Halfway through, however, they asked to rewatch Roof’s confession tape.

“I went to that church in Charl