
Sep 1, 2021 • 9M
Should We Allow the Charleston Church Shooter to Turn the Rest of Us Into Killers?
After Slaying 9 people in a church, Dylann Roof would Like to Live. His attorneys say he should not be executed. What would you do?
Literary fiction and essays by an award-winning writer from the Deep South focusing on the current zeitgeist and the news that stays news.

Today—from the op-ed page of The Jazprose Diaries—a question. If the decision were yours alone, would you set aside the death-penalty sentence for the Charleston church shooter? After slaying 9 people, Dylann Roof would like to live. His attorneys say he should not be executed. But what would you do?