Intellectually I agree. Emotionally, I’m afraid you’re a better person than I am.
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Doubtful. It is all at an abstract to me in this instance. He’s some white guy who murdered a bunch of black folks in a church, none of whom I saw anywhere other than news articles or on TV. It makes it easy to be more dispassionate. If it was here in town, I’d probably have more difficulty.
Hating him doesn’t do anything to him, only to you.
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Can’t help but notice that 2 countries on that list don’t bother to sentence prisoners to the death penalty, before subjecting them to it.
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I don’t hate him, but I don’t have any compassion for him either.
One could argue executions by drone are extrajudicial death sentences.
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My feelings on this news fall somewhere between ‘Fuck capital execution’ and ‘Fuck Dylan Roof’.
Denying him his sense of martyrdom seems to be the only outcome that satisfies both of these statements.
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I’m not interested in punitive measures at all. What I’m interested in is what provides the best result for the community he terrorized. I don’t really know what that is, though.
But I don’t think the death penalty stops any of these atrocities from happening.
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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/01/10/dylann-roof-sentenced-to-death.html
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Appropriate sentence. I concur with this jury’s decision.
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Everyone has to die. Most people don’t have to spend decades in prison contemplating how they threw away their lives by committing a monstrous act of senseless violence.
He’s getting exactly what he wanted. It’s too good for him and it diminishes us.
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Give him the same treatment that other asshole in Norway got.
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Jurors deliberated less than three hours before deciding he had to die.
I assume they had a 2 1/2 hour lunch, and then took a vote.
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A more appropriate sentence would be to spend his life in a little hut on a platform in a hog waste lagoon.
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Harsh, but just.
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I’ve posted this link on BB before. The occasion is right, so I’m posting it again.
This episode of The Memory Palace is a masterpiece; the calm, occasionally almost whimsical delivery accentuating the cold, righteous fury of the message. Listen. Witness:
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Existing thread pre-dating this one:
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Ah but this is the official one.
Which may, upon consideration, be exactly what you meant. 
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That’s for sure. He’s 22; another 60 years in prison would be more just – provided he’s not allowed to spread his pathological hatred. How that could be done is another problem.
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@beschizza Is there a way to bring two threads on the same subject together? This one got started a bit before yours: another Dylan Roof thread.
Yeah, lock this one. 
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It’s true: the conversation over there is more developed.
(We must have been typing at the same time about the other thread. I wouldn’t have said anything if I’d seen yours already.)
