Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church massacre

He was unapologetic, even going as far as to say he did not regret doing it and said that he has no psychological issues.


Dylann Roof jury: Death penalty for Charleston church shooter - CNN.com



This brings up a topic i've been interested in for awhile. What is your opinion on the death penalty? Should we as a country have the right to kill another human being as a matter of principle? Please leave out all of the "you're a softy" or "you're siding with the killer" nonsense for sake of civil conversation. That's not what i'm doing. This was a sick, twisted human being. I just have pondered this question over the years and would like other takes on it.

Also, do you think someone like this really had no psychological issues? To me, clearly he had psychological issues. Whether imprinted in him by other people, the internet, sects of society, whatever...I think that people who harbor not just scant racial prejudices but a desire to hurt or kill those he hates is very definitively having a mental health crisis. Yes, on a continuum from unnoticeable to severely mentally incapacitated, he might have been somewhere toward the former--but this was definitely a product of sick irrationality.