The state’s prosecutors in Charleston should strike a deal with Dylann Roof. In exchange for not putting him on trial, he must agree not to appeal his federal sentence and he must decline to accept a federal pardon for at least 25 years. No doubt that if tried in the courts of South Carolina, Roof will be convicted and executed. He’s no Susan Smith. There is no good reason for the State to expend a substantial amount of public resources when Roof will likely be sitting in a federal penitentiary for decades, if not for life…or even executed.