Son of Buffalo mass shooting victim fears death penalty will make suspect 'a martyr'

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..."Suspect was 'a kid on the internet for years'
Meanwhile, Jones said he believes Gendron could be more help in combating future racially motivated attacks if he is kept alive.

"Just let him sit there and let him think like I've got to keep thinking. For the rest of my life, I've got to think about it. My mom is gone. So, the rest of his life, he needs to think about, 'I can't hug my mother because I did this and I'm in here.' So, that's the outcome I would like," Jones told ABC News. "I know some people want the death penalty for him. Probably if I were younger, that's probably how I would go. But I've got kids. I've had 18-year-old kids and you make a lot of mistakes when you're younger. He made a big one. But he doesn't come across to me as a hard-core terrorist."

He said ideally, he would like to see a program in which others thinking of following in the suspect's footsteps be brought to prison to speak with him, so he can tell them, "don't get caught in what I did."

Jones agrees with Whitfield that Gendron wasn't just a lone wolf.

"He just sits with his head down. He could be brainwashed. You're talking about a kid on the internet for years," Jones said. "Somebody brainwashed him into this, or talked him into doing it, gave him the idea and kept feeding him that the Blacks are taking over and this and that."

Personally I don't think it will make him a Martyr to very many IF any at all, but do agree that he spend all the rest of his days in a Jail Cell. What he did was Horrible.