Dylan Roof Research Paper

The death penalty, although an ultimate punishment in America, is a very unfair and unjust punishment. If a person has the right to rape, torture, kidnap and/or murder someone else and infringe on another’s freedom; then they should be justly punished however death is not the answer. It should no longer stay as an integrated part of our country’s judicial punishment system. However, we should raise the sentences for these serious crimes, compared to what is currently occurring in today's judicial system.

The death penalty is never the right choice. In America last year fifty three people were executed, and at this time in the USA over 3500 people are on death row.

Dylan Roof, the accused killer of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, SC, church, is facing 33 federal indictments, including hate crime and church arson charges that could lead to the death penalty if he is convicted.

The prosecutors on the trial refused Roof’s offer to life in prison, he was found guilty of 33 counts of federal charges including murder and hate crimes. On December 16, 2016, a jury consisting of nine white and three black people determined in three hours (“Dylann Roof convicted”) that Roof was to be sentenced to death by lethal injection. Prosecutors supported this decision by saying that Roof deserved to die due to the meticulous planning of his attack, his lack of remorse for killing nine innocent people, and his intentions of provoking more violence. The savagery of Roof’s actions made those who oppose the death penalty reconsider their view, many saying that if this was not a case that called for capital punishment, what would

Dylann Roof will face the death penalty. Roof is accused of killing nine people during a Bible study on July 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Prosecutors are trying to get Roof the death penalty because he has killed more than two people, and other lives were put into risks. Prosecutors also mentioned that Roof does not feel any remorse for the killings that he committed. Roof also have some federal charges, this includes: hate crimes and obstruction of the practice of religion.

It is known that Dylann Roof was planning his attack and picked the church specifically because they were African American and they were religious. He shot and killed nine people but before he did he sat in the church for an hour and even said he 'Almost didn't go through with It because everyone was so nice to him'. The reason what he did qualifies as a hate crime is because he was targeting a certain race and a certain religion that he did not like and murdered

On the tenth of January, 2017, The La Times reported that, “A federal jury on Tuesday condemned unrepentant white supremacist Dylann Roof to death...” Dylann Roof was responsible for a mass murder that occurred during the summer of 2015, in which he opened fire at a church in South Carolina and killed nine African Americans. Nonetheless, this incident begs the question as to whether Roof, or any criminals for that matter, are deserving of such a drastic punishment. The answer,

Anne Frank and Rachel Joy Scott did not live in the same time period. They were two completely different people. Although they both went through very different things they still had several things in common. Such as they both died because of the kind of people they were. In the years 1933-1945 Jews were being killed because they were simply Jews. They did not meet the qualifications of Adolf Hitler so he sought them out to destroy them. In Columbine High School two boys, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed students because they did not fit into the perfect world they had in mind. In fact, Eric and Dylan loved Hitler. This is the reason why they Chose to do the school shooting on April 20, 1999, which is Adolf Hitler’s birthday. These two

Why would the government think Tupac Shakur was a threat to society when he uplifted the ghetto community? Tupac Shakur is a 90’s hip-hop artist, well known for his revolutionary raps and urge to show people they could have a better life. Shakur was born around revolutionaries such as his mother, who was a member of the Black Panther Party. His raps concerned growing up around violence and hardships in the ghetto, and racial inequalities in the world. So how exactly could the government think he is a threat?

For the revision project, I needed to make more changes to this paper due to not fully getting my point across or because I needed to add some more information to my paper. The first thing that I had to work out was my title. I read the beginning of my paper again and decided on a better suited title that would fit into what my paper was mostly about. Next, I had to fix a sentence that contradicted what I had said earlier in my paper. Another big issue in my paper was the placement of the story of Dylan Roof. To fix this mistake I used parts of my essay that talked about Dylan Roof to form a back story closer to the beginning of my paper. Some of the other sentences that I had written originally made more sense in my mind and when I put them on paper they made it sound like I was saying something different, so I changed the wording in those sentences.

On May 4, 1990, convicted felon Jesse Tafero was executed in what arguably is the most inhumane way possible. Jesse Tafero was strapped into an electric chair. During his execution, his chair malfunctioned three times, resulting in flames that erupted from his head. He died there while officials watched, unable to do anything (Staff, History.com). The capital punishment, the death penalty,  is a curse, not a gift. The death penalty should be abolished because there is the risk of killing the innocent, it does not reduce crime in the US, it’s too costly, and there are other alternatives to the punishment.

No one should ever be responsible for another person's life no matter what the circumstances. Not only does the death penalty give responsibility where it shouldn’t, it takes away financial resources from other more effective preventative measures. We could give these people a chance to better themselves knowing that everyone makes mistakes. Along with all of these problems, the death penalty is wrong and not thought

The concept of capital punishment in The United States has undergone multiple conversations and debates whether it is morally right or morally wrong. Currently, 19 States have declared capital punishment as illegal, while it remains legal in 31 states. Yet, much controversy remains around the death penalty. The notion of killing someone because of certain crimes may appear too cruel for many, but for others, this may appear perfectly fine. The death penalty is in fact morally wrong in my eyes because we should not play judge, jury, and executioner when it comes to the lives of others.

A serial killer that killed more than 10 people has been sentenced to life in prison, when all the sudden his crew broke into the prison and took him out and he killed more people. The death penalty could have saved innocent lives by just annihilating them, putting someone on death row may seem cruel, but think of the innocent life that was killed. The death penalty should be allowed because it will keep these villains from ever attacking or killing again and putting innocent lives at risk, and families will see what the person did, also how race isn't a big part in cases at all.

Jesse Jackson once said, “Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer.” Capital punishment has been around for several hundred years, the first documented execution in America taking place in 1608, but more recently this form of punishment has been raising questions on its morality. While the form of execution has changed over the years, from firing squad to lethal injection, all forms succeed in their purpose: to kill. Support for capital punishment is still very strong in America, the reasons ranging from the fact that the death sentence deters crime, all the way to plain revenge, but recent polls show that a majority of Americans find the death penalty an unjust sentence. It is imperative that Americans open their eyes to the fact that capital punishment does nothing to deter crime, is a result of erroneous sentencing, and is the most basic definition of murder.