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Massacre of 9 ‘was worth it’: racist Roof

Racist mass murderer Dylann Roof wrote in a journal that he didn’t “shed a tear” for the nine worshippers he slaughtered in a historically black church in South Carolina, a prosecutor revealed Wednesday in asking that the convicted killer be sentenced to death.

Roof ’s chilling journal entry, discovered in his jail cell six weeks after his arrest last year, was read aloud to jurors in Charleston federal court as the death-penalty phase of his trial got under way.

“I remember how I felt when I did these things and how I knew I had to do something and then I realize it was worth it,” wrote Roof, who admittedly wanted to start a race war.

“I would like to make it crystal clear. I do not regret what I did. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”

Assistant US Attorney Nathan Williams told jurors that the killing spree during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015 justified giving Roof, 22, the death penalty.

“He killed nine people . . . He killed them because of the color of their skin.kin He killed them because [he considered them] less than people,” Williams said.

The prosecutor reminded jurors that Roof sat with the churchgoers for 45 minutes and waited until their eyes were closed in prayer before squeezing off shots from a .45-caliber Glock pistol.

Roof (above), a self-avowed white supremacist who is acting as his own lawyer in the penalty phase, spoke to jurors for the first time Wednesday and denied being mentally ill.

He didn’t ask them to spare him from execution.

“I am not going to lie to you,” Roof said. “Other than the fact that I trust people that I shouldn’t and the fact that I’m probably better at constantly embarrassing myself than anyone who’s ever existed, there’s nothing wrong with me psychologically.”

He also urged jurors to disregard that his lawyer in the first phase of the trial hinted at Roof ’s possible mental illness.

“If you happen to remember anything that my lawyer said, I ask that you forget it,” he said.

Roof was found guilty last month of all 33 hate-crime charges against him.

He indicated that he doesn’t plan on calling witnesses or introducing any evidence.