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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2015, 09:37:55 AM »

No/No.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it happening to him.

But, it's South Carolina and he is a White who killed Black people. He will surely find at least one sympathetic juror to him.

This, most probably.
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« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2015, 09:44:06 AM »

I am an opponent of the death penalty in almost all cases. But - not this one...
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« Reply #27 on: June 19, 2015, 12:19:19 PM »

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« Reply #28 on: June 19, 2015, 12:28:09 PM »

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« Reply #29 on: June 19, 2015, 12:30:38 PM »

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« Reply #30 on: June 19, 2015, 02:14:57 PM »

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« Reply #31 on: June 19, 2015, 03:07:44 PM »

Hell yes.

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

it must be tough to acknowledge the reality that capital defendants today are akin to this guy, not Leo Frank or the Scottsboro Boys.
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« Reply #32 on: June 19, 2015, 03:23:44 PM »

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« Reply #33 on: June 19, 2015, 03:57:39 PM »

no.
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« Reply #34 on: June 19, 2015, 04:02:45 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

I believe the death penalty is wrong under any circumstances whatsoever. No exceptions.

With acts of terrorism or mass murder, I understand people who want to see the perpetrators given the death penalty, but I still think it's wrong. I agree that Roof did a very, very bad thing, which is why I wouldn't be dwell on him being given the death penalty. However, I would still be opposed to it.
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« Reply #35 on: June 19, 2015, 04:04:57 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

What a load of bullsh*t.
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« Reply #36 on: June 19, 2015, 04:10:56 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

What a load of bullsh*t.

I seem to have struck a nerve......
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« Reply #37 on: June 19, 2015, 04:15:17 PM »

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« Reply #38 on: June 19, 2015, 04:20:10 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

What a load of bullsh*t.

I seem to have struck a nerve......

No, you're just spewing out untrue nonsense.
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« Reply #39 on: June 19, 2015, 04:22:52 PM »

Damn, hell of a lot of terrorist-coddlers on this website. Obviously he should be executed.
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« Reply #40 on: June 19, 2015, 04:25:21 PM »

No (not a revenge-seeking bloodthirsty savage)
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« Reply #41 on: June 19, 2015, 04:33:05 PM »

Much like Tsarnaev, Hasan, Holmes, and McVeigh, anyone who takes this many innocent lives in cold blood should be executed. Especially since he likely has Neo-Nazi buddies both inside and out who might try to help him.
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« Reply #42 on: June 19, 2015, 04:35:01 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

What a load of bullsh*t.

I seem to have struck a nerve......

No, you're just spewing out untrue nonsense.

Garbage. I was a defense attorney (and capital punishment opponent) once, and you defend your client to the utmost whether they are in fact innocent (almost never the case) or guilty7 as sin of the most henious crimes. if when envisions death penalty defendants as largely innocent victims of corrupt racist police and judiciary, but soften their resistance to mere  lip service when faced with a truly horrific and monsterous hate crime like this, that's hypocritical.

opposition to the death penalty means being able to oppose its use even in the most henious crimes such as this. anyone who refuses to oppose the death penalty just as vehemently here vs. the cases of Mumia or the like is frankl. just wussing out.
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« Reply #43 on: June 19, 2015, 04:53:55 PM »

Damn, hell of a lot of terrorist-coddlers on this website. Obviously he should be executed.

I don't defend anything he did. As a moral issue, I oppose capital punishment. I ask that you stop implying that somehow I condone his actions. That is insulting and absurd.
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« Reply #44 on: June 19, 2015, 05:02:08 PM »

And the "i won't lose sleep over it" answer is weasal words. Just come out and say it: "I sincerely hope this mass murderer's life will be spared, and will object mightily if is not". Anything less is a desire to hold the smug 'moral high ground' while simultaneously quietly admitting some offenses deserve execution.

What a load of bullsh*t.

I seem to have struck a nerve......

No, you're just spewing out untrue nonsense.

Garbage. I was a defense attorney (and capital punishment opponent) once, and you defend your client to the utmost whether they are in fact innocent (almost never the case) or guilty7 as sin of the most henious crimes. if when envisions death penalty defendants as largely innocent victims of corrupt racist police and judiciary, but soften their resistance to mere  lip service when faced with a truly horrific and monsterous hate crime like this, that's hypocritical.

opposition to the death penalty means being able to oppose its use even in the most henious crimes such as this. anyone who refuses to oppose the death penalty just as vehemently here vs. the cases of Mumia or the like is frankl. just wussing out.

Then let me say it as clearly and unequivocally as I can:

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Dylann Roof should not be given the death penalty.

Note: This does not, in any form, equal condoning his obviously heinous crime. It is simply meant to make clear my stance on this moral issue.

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« Reply #45 on: June 19, 2015, 05:04:20 PM »

They'll never be happy until more blood is shed in revenge, dimplechad.  It's a sport for them.
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« Reply #46 on: June 19, 2015, 05:06:39 PM »

Yes, actually. It is a lot less meally mouthed than the "i don't support the death penalty but won't mind when this guy gets it" b.s. several posters (including you) stated previously.
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« Reply #47 on: June 19, 2015, 05:12:30 PM »

They'll never be happy until more blood is shed in revenge, dimplechad.  It's a sport for them.

Actually, protecting crime victims is my life's calling, so yes, i get more then a tad testy when dorm room internet warriors minimize issues and actual human suffering to caricatures. Ditto with manchildren who condense real issues about police relations with their communities into screeds about "pigs" to describe the other 98% of cops.
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« Reply #48 on: June 19, 2015, 05:14:59 PM »

Yes, actually. It is a lot less meally mouthed than the "i don't support the death penalty but won't mind when this guy gets it" b.s. several posters (including you) stated previously.

It's entirely possible to oppose the death penalty as an institution because of its chance to kill innocents, while not having a single qualm about - as long as it's legal - it being applied to mass murderers where there is zero doubt about their guilt.

I believe executing killers is completely morally justifiable, yet I'd be happy if it went away simply because I don't trust the states to apply it, personally.
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« Reply #49 on: June 19, 2015, 05:20:04 PM »

A government of mass murderers produces a state of mass murderers.

Explain Anders Breivik.

That is the very definition of an isolated incident.  Notably there haven't been any changes to the law because of him.

Is that the best you got?

I will lose sleep over the death of this monster like any reasonable person should.  One day, America will decide it's time to break the cycle.
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