Soon a jury will be assembled in Buffalo by the federal government seeking a death sentence for the gunman who shot and killed 10 people in 2022 at the Tops supermarket in a racially motivated mass shooting. He has already been convicted and sentenced to 11 terms of life without parole (plus 90 years). But the federal government still wants to execute him.

As part of that sentencing process, the families of those who were killed will have a chance to speak about the irreparable harm done to them — which will inevitably bring about a reopening of the wounds of loss and tragedy.

I understand that anguish. I have sat in a similar courtroom, under similar circumstances. Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, murdered my mother, two cousins and six others in another racially motivated mass killing in 2015 at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C. For........

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