Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church massacre

You're danged right we should. And we should also bring back hanging, the guillotine, the firing squad and public execution.

Might start deterring some of these people from doing things like this in the future...

I'm just wondering where the rationale for that comes from. Not disagreeing with the sentiment that he is a sick individual.

What authority do we as a nation possess to end the life of another human?

I can't really come up with a viable answer for that, and I think it's a deep subject. I also don't understand the fascination with all sorts of gruesome forms of death as a means of "settling the score" and appeasing the populace for what someone did.