Story highlights Jill Filipovic: Dylann Roof, sentenced to death, neither wants nor deserves mercy. But he should not be put to deathShe says: State-sanctioned killing is the province of authoritarian states. Jill FilipovicThis was the question Melvin Graham put to reporters this week after Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for murder. Roof, a white supremacist, was clearly guilty and has never expressed remorse for the killings. If there was ever a man who deserves no sympathy and to whom the word "evil" so obviously applies, it is Roof.

Source: CNN January 13, 2017 21:56 UTC