Unlike so many race murderers of another time, Roof felt lonely, unsupported.
Other parts of America, and the world, may well be more struck by the extraordinary length of time it has taken to bring a race-murderer to book.
But before their deaths at 12205 Imperial Avenue, they were already casualties of three of America's time-honored mass murderers: race, poverty, and addiction.
When our hero's implant fails, he discovers that he isn't a brave defender of the human race — he's a murderer of innocent people, part of a campaign to exterminate members of a despised group akin to the Jews of Europe in the nineteen-forties.
Not to get too bogged down in the plot, because the movie certainly doesn't, but Charlotte is carrying on an epistolary romance with one Hillary Van Wetter, who is not, in fact, a contestant on "RuPaul's Drag Race" but a convicted murderer played by John Cusack.
The two girls race the police to find out who the murderer is.
These laws assured that a first-degree murderer would die regardless of the race of the victim or defendant.
It's demeaning and at worst, fatal, to be stereotyped as the "same kind of person" as the mass murderer just because they share the same race.
"It's obvious that it's race," one local resident told an MSNBC reporter of the murderer's motives.
The hottest subgenre now is romantic suspense, with "characters falling in love and racing against the clock, solving a crime, running from a murderer," she said.
But what if the mixed-race person is a Muslim or Gypsy criminal, a pedophile or a murderer?
