Dylann Roof will die now, at the hands of the state; and white America will think the system works.
But if Roof had gone into a meeting of Black Lives Matter activists in Charleston and killed them, in exactly the way he murdered folks at that church, not only would he not have received a death sentence.
He would not have been convicted at all.
Death row is not only the hardest area to break out of, it would be the most difficult to get to someone. It's not so much about the quantity of life, it's about the quality.
If he was in prison he'd be scared every second of the rest of his life. He'd never find peace. Psychological terror is just as effective as physical torture.
Timothy McVeigh begged to have his death sentence carried out because his mind was already in hell. His screams and restlessness were discussed even before it was announced his execution would be moved up.
Whatever he was going through was worse than death.
I hope Dylan Roof doesn't think he's safe because when I die and go to hell, let me catch his ass at the cafeteria.
They should have kept him alive and forced him to listen to Public Enemy 23 hours a day.
But I'm normally against the death penalty because too many innocent black ppl have been killed, but I'll let this one slide.
I know that he'll get the injections but I wish they would fry that muthafukka.
I hope that the lethal injection goes wrong, happened before and when that happens the criminal is suffering alot (heart attack and a lot of pain and agony) so
I hope someone will sabotage his injection.
But then again I wonder if Trump will pardon him.
In every situation, guys like Roof think they are the ones getting mistreated.
They value victim status because they’re a cult.
That’s how cults work. A cult can never be the oppressor. It always has to be oppressed. That’s what keeps the members insular. They have to stay in the cult because they’re being attacked by forces from outside.
Every bunch of bad guys has to think they’re the good guys. The Ku Klux Klan thought they were the good guys. The Nazis thought they were the good guys.
It’s twisted.
But it’s how they think. They can’t admit the truth because then they’d have to give up the victim status they’ve reserved for themselves.
And they desperately need that if they’re going to preserve the messed-up lie that is their view of the world.
Despite the world of outrageous privilege whites in the USA generally live in. Guys like Roof and his ilk think they’re getting the short end of everything. It’s mind-boggling that they could think that, but it’s really how they see the world.
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