Dylann Roof sentenced to death for Charleston church massacre

alohawhodat said

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.

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War, or do we only care if this applies to people in our own country? War kills more innocent people than capital punishment could ever hope to.


I think that at some point we have to decide if it's OK to keep people around who are a threat to our society and who we determine cannot be kept at bay under diplomatic means. Whether that means exterminate them, incarcerate them, incapacitate them or rehabilitate them.

But I'd like to reiterate that prisons are ******** and completely not the correct answer, so to say let's just keep shoving people in there together is not solving anything.