Dylann Roof, the unrepentant
I despise the murderer of the Emanuel Nine, and all he stands for. But I can't embrace his death.
The sentence, death, and it's easy to see why.
He is utterly unrepentant, a soul poisoned by a hate so deep that he still sees no wrong in his actions. The death of his innocent victims and the suffering he inflicted on those families mean nothing to him, not against the hate that burns in his heart against those who he was taught to despise.
So he must die, or so our culture asserts. There is no question, none, that he is evil. He is not considered insane, not against any meaningful measure. He is lucid, aware, responsive, and completely committed to the ideology that led him to commit a reprehensible crime. He would, if given a gun and a chance, do it again.
