The Justice Department said Friday that it would seek the death penalty against the white supremacist who shot and killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a Buffalo supermarket.

In a new court filing seen by The Messenger, the DoJ said that the death sentence for Payton Gendron was “justified,” following his attack at the Tops grocery store on May 14 2022.

“Payton Gendron committed the offense after substantial planning and premeditation to cause the death of a person,” the filing said, adding that the killings were clearly racially-motivated.

[All true and Gendron is a good candidate for execution, if one supports the death penalty. But … Joe Biden doesn’t. He attacked Trump for the surge in federal executions during the 2020 campaign and pledged to end the federal death penalty, and then ordered a moratorium on executions not long after taking office. This is a curious reversal. — Ed]