Roommates, you’ll never believe what Dylan Roof’s lawyers are trying to do. As a brief refresher, Dylan Roof is the mass shooter who ended 9 people’s lives, most of whom were African Americans, in a South Carolina church. Mhhm, that guy.
Roof’s lawyers are challenging the constitutionality of the federal death penalty law, by arguing that the penalty is unconstitutional.
The penalty is being challenged by Roof’s lawyers because the federal government is seeking the death penalty after rejecting Roof’s offer to plead guilty and accept multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole.
According to Buzzfeed, Roof’s lawyers write, “The Federal Death Penalty Act may have been designed with as much care as possible under the circumstances, the capital sentencing process that the statute provides is constitutionally inadequate a practice.” They continued on to write, The results of jurors good-faith grappling with the law – arbitrary, biased, and erroneous death verdicts – are intolerable as a matter of due process and proportional punishment.”
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