In June 2015, Dylann Roof allegedly killed nine African Americans in a mass shooting in a black church in Charleston last year. The families of the victims responded to the tragedy with powerful messages of forgiveness. Now, the DOJ has declared it wants to execute Roof for the crime, even though his death by lethal injection will change nothing about the conditions that lead him to violence.
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a very powerful analysis on DOJ’s announcement to seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof.
Read the full article in The Atlantic
Photo credit: A sign is pictured at a makeshift memorial for victims of a mass shooting, outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, June 22, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
