Dylann Roof is now on death row at Terre Haute Federal Prison in Indiana for the June 2015 incident where he shot and killed nine black churchgoers at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
The then 23-year-old white supremacist told FBI agents that he went into Emmanuel AME Church with intentions of starting a race war, according to NBC News.
A jury sentenced Roof, the first person convicted of a federal hate crime, to death in January. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of state murder.
Roof left Al Cannon Detention Center in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Friday and was moved to Terre Haute the next day, The Associated Press noted.
Terre Haute is where federal inmates await their death sentences.
The medium-security prison currently holds more than 1,300 inmates on death row, NBC News noted.
According to NBC News, due to the many legal battles in states like Arkansas and Ohio, regarding lethal injections, Roof and many other death row inmates will be sitting for some time, as prosecutors and defense lawyer’s work to determine if one of the drugs used for lethal injection – midazolam – is considered to be cruel and unusual punishment.
When injected with midazolam, an inmate remains conscious until injected with two other drugs.
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