Death Penalty Sought for SC Church Shooter

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a white man accused of killing nine black parishioners in a racially motivated attack at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.
"The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in a statement.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-south-carolina-church-212459180.html
 
Maybe he can plead guilty under an Alford Plea and simply walk with time served.

The West Memphis three, Baldwin Misskelley and Echols, entered an Alford plea on August 19, 2011. Convicted in 1994 for the brutal death and mutilation of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas , they were allowed to pleaded guilty to three counts of first degree murder still asserting their claim actual innocence. The judge then sentenced the three men to 18 years and 78 days, the amount of time they had served, and also levied a suspended sentence of 10 years. Source-Wikipedia

Alford Plea Link: https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/the-alford-plea-guilty-but-innocent
West Memphis three Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three#Retrial_request
 
Should be a no brainer. Is there any doubt of his guilt?

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
That's totally not what happened with The West Memphis Three. Three young men were convicted of murder even though they had a rock-solid alibi. They were finally released with a real killer was found. As for Dylann Roof, he should be hung on the courthouse lawn
 
If the prosecutors says they will go for the death penalty, I don't think there is any room for a plea bargain, he can only hope for a hung jury which will, under federal law, and in SC, give him a life sentence.
 
He may be guilty but I can never accept his punishment of death, we have to consider the value of a human life and how he might change in time.
 
I don't value his life. Given the opportunity I would pull the switch myself
 
Dude653 said:
The thirteenth chapter of Romans addresses capital punishment.
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all I know is that Jesus went to the extremes to save us even the worst of us and I know he would do it a thousand times over for just one of us if he had to that is how deep his love is for us that is how precious and important we are to him even in the darkest of hearts in the most blood stained of souls he saw something worth saving worth suffering greatly for for and worth dying for.

This may not be your path but as for me I am after a love for him with him and for all others so deep and so strong that I would be willing to burn in the very fires of hell itself for a time for their sake and even if I never have to I want to be more than willing. The Love of God runs very deep especially so in his children who know and seek his love with every fiber of their being I cannot say this is this path for everyone but I know my own and I can promise you I will go that far for his sake if I have to and I will beg God to take me instead.

He desires all to be saved he loves and cherishes all of his creation and the fire in his eyes in the book of revelation shows that fiery love and protection for us in his heart
 
The victims family members forgave this man THE NEXT DAY after the murders. He will have several yrs for the Lord to reach him if he is found guilty and sentenced to death before the sentence is executed.

He may in fact be forgiven by the family and the Lord, but sin has consequences, and in his case the consequence will likely be the death penalty.
 
One lady said she forgave him. However the majority of the black community has not. This young man deserves to be executed for his crime. It's just the right thing to do.
 
Dude653 said:
That's totally not what happened with The West Memphis Three. Three young men were convicted of murder even though they had a rock-solid alibi. They were finally released with a real killer was found.
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**accusation removed**And all you have do is provide your source to prove your aren't.
 
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Dude653 said:
One lady said she forgave him. However the majority of the black community has not. This young man deserves to be executed for his crime. It's just the right thing to do.
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It's the legal thing to do. It being legal doesn't automatically make it right.
 
Dude653 said:
One lady said she forgave him. However the majority of the black community has not. This young man deserves to be executed for his crime. It's just the right thing to do.
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Some had representatives say they forgave. Others offered to Bible study with him. Are you suggesting he shouldn't be forgiven? Again, his actions have consequences. One of which may be the forfeiture of his earthly life. That is a separate issue to forgiveness. These people chose to heal not tear at wounds. Brothers and sisters in Christ were slaughtered. What difference does it make the color of their skin?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...harleston-church-victims-address-dylann-roof/
 
Sirk said:
**cough*** abortion.
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You don't know my views on abortion. But they're two separate issues, and one of the two practices being legal doesn't make the other right, either way around. Do you disagree with the death penalty? Personally I tend to see both abortion and the death penalty as taking a life. Whether or not some people redefine life in order to make abortion in all circumtances seem acceptable, is up to them. I personally don't do that. Abortion is taking a life.

The only instances I think where abortion ought to even be on the table are where there is a direct threat to mum's life or where the pregnancy came about without mum's consent. The first, I think is fair because a pregnant woman who might die as a result of pregnancy, ought to be able to save her own life even if it means ending the baby's. The second because pregnancy ought to come about through consensual sex; it's as cruel to force a woman to carry a child that came about from rape, as it is to rape her yourself. It ought to be her choice in that situation; in my opinion the abortion would be on the rapist's head, not her's. Obviously in a perfect world she would recognize the child is innocent and keep it, but in a perfect world women wouldn't get raped. Neither choice - abort or not -- is easy for a woman who conceived from a rape, but at least allow her the choice, I say. Yet I find abortion "on demand" unjustifiable.

As for the death penalty, I personally couldn't execute someone. The same way I couldn't personally kill a child in the womb. But I suppose the difference is that if someone commits a crime against me, they aren't going to be a part of my body, growing inside me. So the two issues, at least in that regard, aren't comparable.
 
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