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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylann_Roof
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/12/us/dylann ... explainer/
this thread is to seek conservative Anabaptist thoughts on Dylann Roof."Do victims' relatives want the death penalty?
Melvin Graham, whose sister Cynthia Hurd was killed by Roof, supported the jury's decision to recommend the death penalty.
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"Today we had justice for my sister," Graham said Tuesday.
"This is a very hollow victory, because my sister is still gone," he said. "I wish that this verdict could have brought her back. But what it can do is just send a message to those who feel the way he feels that this community will not tolerate it."
But in the past, some victims' relatives have vehemently opposed the death penalty for their loved ones' killers.
In one case, the children of Kelly Gissendaner -- a woman convicted of helping kill her husband -- said they had made peace with their mother and begged the state of Georgia to not kill their one remaining parent.
But the children's appeals failed, and Gissendaner was executed in 2015."
others are welcome, a note of faith pov would be appreciated.
i was humbled by the very first news accounts that described survivors in the church immediately reached out in forgiveness to Mr Roof .. (those reports were quickly replaced with "anything-but" forgiveness as reports multiplied, the incident highly politicized.)
i was reminded of the Nickel Mines tragedy, which differed radically in that Amish leadership refused the media circus and politics. the Nickel Mines murderer did not survive. Dylann Roof lives, must be dealt with.