We can't just have the death penalty for one person. Even if you believe Dylann Roof deserves to die, by supporting his death sentence, you're supporting the continuation of racial disparities, arbitrariness, murder of innocent people, & extraordinary fiscal & human cost.
I'm sorry if this tweet upsets you. I am. But how on earth could you interpret this as me not caring about or minimizing the brutal and tragic and unimaginable racist violence and murder and trauma and pain of communities and families because of the actions of Dylann Roof?
There are never just "special exemptions." Nature of sentencing laws. Always rule not exception. If the death penalty exists it'll be imposed and carried out predominately and disproportionately against poor, Black and Brown people, only in certain states.
https://twitter.com/WhoDatSHN/status/1430634019033657345?s=20
But "no executions" IS an option. We need to abolish the death penalty. That's my point. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
https://twitter.com/apark2453/status/1430639629326188546?s=20
A different hill than abolishing the death penalty once and for all? Fuck no.
https://twitter.com/TimTolley_/status/1430691962647109632
I am not seriously sympathizing for a white supremacist that mercilessly killed 9 Black people. I’m want to abolish the death penalty. And we won’t abolish the death penalty if we support the death penalty.
https://twitter.com/MVP28_/status/1430658227629404162
“Believing Roof deserves to die is not support for sentencing disparities.” This isnt about whether or not one believes he “deserves to die.” It’s about whether we should continue to support the death penalty—state murder thats unavoidably arbitrary, racist, inaccurate, costly.
https://twitter.com/D_Kuehn/status/1430719770379362305
I always have and always will until we abolish the death penalty and that’s exactly the point of opposing it always. Black men will always disproportionately get murdered by the state.
https://twitter.com/marcusbryanx_/status/1430657875639144451
Because the death penalty doesn’t exist only for white supremacists. It exists for all. And in practice it is applied in an arbitrary & racist fashion. “All” is really Black people—often innocent—more likely to get death. We’ll never abolish the death penalty if we support it.
https://twitter.com/indiecratublic1/status/1430642485563375620
I adamantly oppose supporting a system in which disproportionately Black and often innocent men will continue to be killed by a country built on racism just so the state can kill this one white supremacist mass murderer. How is that “racist as hell”?
https://twitter.com/forgoodtroublel/status/1430742293213028354
“Despite the anger I am still coping w/ from my mothers death, I don’t believe in the death penalty, even for the man who killed her. That’s my conviction bc of my faith. I don’t believe we should take away someones life just bc we have the power to do so.”vox.com/2016/6/15/1189…
“Coleman worries that in many capital punishment cases, factors like race of the victim or ability to afford experienced attorneys may influence the outcome. She also feels executing people to show killing is wrong is more retribution than punishment.” cnn.com/2017/01/12/us/… 
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