This week U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, who shot and killed nine people at a Charleston, SC church last year. Whether you believe in the death penalty or not, says Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, decisions around the death penalty should not be driven by politics, but rather “by the awareness of what it means to take another life because the life we are taking has taken yet other lives.”