(CNN) The death penalty is wrong. Story highlights Issac Bailey: Seeking death penalty against suspect in Charleston church killings is wrongProlonging the use of the inequitable death penalty will cause great harm, Bailey saysIssac Bailey has been a journalist in South Carolina for two decades and was most recently the primary columnist for The Sun News in Myrtle Beach. Using it to punish Dylann Roof may make some of us feel good in the short term but will only make it harder to uproot a system that's more likely to harm people who look more like Roof's victims than Roof himself. I attended a service at Emanuel with my then-future wife eight years before we were married, a full quarter of a century before Roof's name became infamous. I know well the emotional resonance that comes with that dastardly deed.

Source: CNN May 25, 2016 07:15 UTC