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On March 2, 2022, attorneys for Roof announced that they had asked the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] to resolve the dispute between them and their client over the mental illness defense. Roof had fired his attorneys to prevent them from portraying him as having a mental illness. The attorneys argued that they should have been allowed to remain on the case.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kinnard |first1=Meg |title=Dylann Roof takes church shooting appeal to US Supreme Court {{!}} Associated Press |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dylann-roof-takes-church-shooting-appeal-us-supreme-83207302|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221012005305/https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dylann-roof-takes-church-shooting-appeal-us-supreme-83207302|archive-date=October 12, 2022|access-date=March 2, 2022|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=March 2, 2022}}</ref> On October 11, 2022, it was announced that the Supreme Court had denied the appeal without comment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-denies-appeal-dylann-roof-sentenced-death-murders-sc-black-church|title=Supreme Court denies appeal of Dylann Roof, sentenced to death for murders at SC Black church|work=FoxNews|date=October 11, 2022|access-date=October 11, 2022|first=Timothy|last=Nerozzi|archive-date=June 30, 2023|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230630105717/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-denies-appeal-dylann-roof-sentenced-death-murders-sc-black-church|url-status=live}}</ref>
In December 2024, when President Joe Biden announced commutations for the death sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, he excluded Roof, along with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who committed the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and Robert Gregory Bowers who commited the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting because of their convictions for either terrorism or hate-motivated mass murder related crimes.
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