Dylann Roof was found guilty of murdering nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.

The white 22-year-old was convicted on all 33 federal charges for killing the nine black churchgoers last year.

Along with the nine murder counts, he was also charged with an array of hate crimes.

The same jury will reconvene Jan. 3 to decide whether to sentence Roof to death or life in prison without parole.

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He now faces the possibility of the death penalty.

Roof admitted to the killings shortly after he was arrested in a videotaped confession that was played in court last week, in which he detailed his account of the killings and his racist motivations for carrying them out.

“I had to do it because somebody had to,” he said. "Blacks are raping and killing white people on the streets every day."