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A police officer searches for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church, in downtown Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. The shooting has prompted not just a calls for tighter gun-control laws, but also pleas from the right for churches to protect themselves by allowing their parishioners to carry concealed firearms. (Associated Press)
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Women pray together at a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people, including the church's pastor, were gunned down at a prayer meeting Wednesday evening. (Associated Press)
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Dylann Storm Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo)
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Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, center, is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) ** FILE **
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A man kneels across the street from where police gather outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, finishes speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Attorney General Loretta Lynch listens members of the media's questions on the recent church shooting in Charleston, S.C., during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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A man looks on as a group of people arrive inquiring about a shooting across the street Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Glenn Beck announced Thursday that he's heading to Charleston, South Carolina to support a historic black church where nine people were killed in a suspected hate crime the night before. (Twitter/Glenn Beck)
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Images on a flier provided to media, Thursday, June 18, 2015, by the Charleston Police Department show surveillance footage of a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting Wednesday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. (Courtesy of Charleston Police Department via AP)
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The steeple of Emanuel AME Church is visible as police close off a section of Calhoun Street early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)
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Police stand outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP)
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Hampton Park (Charleston, SC) - Hampton Park is located on the peninsular Charleston, South Carolina, and remains the largest park on the peninsula. Historically, Hampton Park began as a plantation, and had stints over the years as a race course and cemetery. The park is recognized for its beautiful sights, and is also popular for runners, joggers, and cyclists, who use the one-mile perimeter road for exercise.
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A horse-drawn carriage moves through the historic district in Charleston, South Carolina. In decades past, Charleston was largely unknown to visitors from the wider world. But now millions of people a year visit the city, which last year was named the top tourist destination in the United States and No. 2 in the world by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In a March 20, 2014 file photo, the Carnival Fantasy is moored at dock in Charleston, S.C.. The South Carolina Ports Authority and the state Department of Health and Environmental Control want to build a $35 million cruise terminal in Charleston. (AP Photos/Bruce Smith, file)
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A carriage driver bundled up against the cold sits quietly waiting for fares on a wind-swept street in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, Feb. 19., 2015. The temperature was 32 degrees with the wind chill making it feel like 22 degrees. The normal high for this time of year in Charleston is 60 degrees. The National Weather Service forecast another day of cold temperatures in South Carolina before a weekend warm up. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Gordon "Randy" Steidl, 57, spent more than 17 years in an Illinois prison, including 12 on death row, for a double murder he didn't commit. Presidents have arguably granted clemency requests too infrequently. (Associated Press/File)
