Come on, there's like an 0.8% chance of that just being random luck.

Hannity called it murder.

exactly

It's y'all, ******.

Can we see registered voter demographics?
That seems more important

^ I wonder what motivates someone to post that? Weird.

It's really not enough.

but then to vote South Carolina requires the same ID. So registered voters only contributes to the jury pool people who register to vote but don't vote and don't have ID.

stuff like this should be catching bans tbh, it's overly hostile and annoying to read.

Yeah i was thinking the population of eligible jurors may be bizarrely skewed and one black member may actually be the proportionate share.

He said it to a banned poster so it evens out.

Dylann Roof guilty on all counts after only two hours of deliberation.

Is the death penalty a federal thing in addition to states? The article says it was a "federal jury" and that they'll next meet in January to decide between death or a life sentence.

justice keeps working.

the ones railroaded with phony charges are found not guilty.

the ones who commit real crimes like Dylann Roof are found guilty.

good on you America

dude I know your memory isn't that short, but maybe scroll up a little bit and remember the last discussion that took place in this thread

The Feds have the death penalty but no one has been executed under the law since 2003.

Think it would be pretty likely that the Defendant used all of his Jury strikes on people of color. That and the lawyers probably went after people of color pretty hard for conflicts.

Well guys, if America can convict a white man of nine murders committed in full view of dozens of witnesses, I guess racism truly is dead!

The state murder trial, entirely separate from the Federal trial in your link, doesn't start until January.

He has a few Federal weapons charges but the majority are civil rights violations in this case. Something like half of the Federal charges he was convicted of here carry the possibility of the death sentence iirc.

im against the death penalty on the basis that i think it's unacceptable for innocent men to be put to death (which happens a lot, and the application seems quite racist as well in usa#1), but man...no tears for people like dylan roof when they get sentenced to death. good riddance, piece of ****. i'd pull the ****ing lever myself

Im against the death penalty because I'm a liberal.

What does this even mean?

It's about liberal values and it's like torture - we dont oppose torture or the death penalty because it doesn't work or because the wrong people might be tortured. We oppose it because it is a bad thing for us to do.

I consider myself liberal, certainly by US standards I am, but I don't oppose the death penalty on principle.

I want this guy tortured by his conscience in miserable dehumanizing conditions for what he did for the course of his natural life. Death penalty is the easy way out. I'm not sufficiently confident in the existence of hell to want him to die just yet.

I'm just reading old threads I subbed to, so I know I'm a week late, but you can't see times where he'd be happy to be alive, even under those "miserable dehumanizing conditions"?

especially someone as convinced in a "cause" as him. he'll have ****ty days, but he'll also have kick back days. he'll have meals he enjoys, conversations that intrigue him, friends he makes.

maybe I'm weird (I am) and I'm not looking to find out, but I could be happy in basically any situation other than just plain "torture until you die". maybe it's more, "I could be happy in any situation that I could feasibly find myself in, given the worst-case scenario occurred". like I said, I don't ever want to find out, but even in solitary, a random fond memory or a crude joke overheard or an extra slab of jello for christmas...you can always have positive moments.

I don't think this guy deserves those.

he's not going to get stabbed to death or going to be 'found dead in his cell', he's too high-profile for that. so he'll sit in a cell by himself for 23 hours a day for the rest of his long-ass, natural life (which is even more true getting access to health care that probably 90% of the people of North Carolina can't). is it gonna suck the overwhelming majority of the time? I hope so. but he still certainly will experience joy and humor and maybe even love.

his conscience isn't going to torture him, they should walk in, tell him in 5 minutes they're taking him into a room and shooting him in the head, give him his 5 minutes and then take him into a room and shoot him in his head.

Why not torture him?