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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Thu May 26, 2016, 01:45 PM May 2016

Why Dylann Roof shouldn't be killed for killing

By Issac Bailey
Updated 8:44 AM ET, Wed May 25, 2016

... A few months ago, I sat in the home of Marjorie McIver listening as she described the difficulty of getting out of the bed each morning because she couldn't get the image of Myra Thompson's bullet-riddled body out of her mind. Thompson was one of the nine people killed during that Emanuel Bible study. McIver is her sister.

Still, when I last spoke with McIver, she wasn't in favor of the death penalty and instead was trying to grapple with the reality of the ugliness that had befallen her family, looking for ways to do what her faith had long taught her, find light in even the darkest places ...

Killing Roof -- for no good reason -- might satisfy our bloodlust for a few days. But we won't be killing him because he's a threat to society, because he no longer is. We won't be killing him because we have to, only because we want to.

We feel comfortable killing someone who has killed in a way that we'd never apply to other crimes. No one would be OK with raping someone who raped because we know that to do so would be to dehumanize us more than the person we are punishing ...


http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/opinions/dylann-roof-death-penalty-opinion-bailey/

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Why Dylann Roof shouldn't be killed for killing (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2016 OP
If he would be sentenced to life imprissonment without the possibility still_one May 2016 #1
How About This? SoCalMusicLover May 2016 #2
 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
2. How About This?
Thu May 26, 2016, 02:29 PM
May 2016

I know it is not a favorable viewpoint here, but this is the one issue I guess my tendencies veer towards the conservative. Oh, and I'm also very anti-gun.

I think there are crimes which deserve the death penalty. Ultimately it should be the victims' families who have a say in the matter, and unless every family of his 9 victims feels he should live, he should be tried with the death penalty on the table.

The fact he is not a threat is irrelevant. Although, it actually is meaningful in some ways. Dylann is not getting out of jail again, so what real use is there left for him on this planet? So he can be rehabilitated? For what purpose? Will he ever need to use that rehabilitation when he gets out into society? No.

I can see the point that he will suffer much more by living out his years in a jail cell, but so far as I'm concerned, he is taking taxpayers' money for his care over potentially the next 70 years, and he is also using the limited resources of this planet, and that imo is a waste.

While I can see many cases where the death penalty might be unjustified, this is not one of them. The religious inspired belief by the families is admirable, but it is a reflection of their religious beliefs, rather than what should be justified in this particular case.

It sickens me that I have to share this planet with a scumbag like him. After how they welcomed him in, they showed what kind of people they were, and the fact they're now dead is tragic, and he should pay in a like manner by giving up his miserable life.

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