This is the first time a death penalty verdict was rendered in a federal hate crimes case the justice department said.
Is dylann roof getting death penalty.
The jury s decision had to be unanimous to sentence roof to death.
Dylann roof 22 has been sentenced to death for killing nine black churchgoers during a bible study in charleston south carolina.
Roof became the first person to be ordered executed for a federal hate crime when he was sentenced to death for fatally shooting nine black church members at emanuel ame church in charleston south.
White supremacist dylann roof on tuesday appealed his federal convictions and death sentence in the 2015 massacre of nine black church members in south carolina arguing that he was.