Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order

Kilrah_il writes "In an all-time low for Internet use, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff used Twitter to announce to the public his approval of the execution of convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner. 'I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims,' the attorney general wrote. The AG's 7,000 followers retweeted the message further on and soon many replied concerning the awfulness of tweeting the execution of a human being. 'Mr. Shurtleff was doing nothing unusual; politicians and news organizations now routinely send out tweets to alert people to the latest developments. But as Twitter users digested endless breaking news flashes alerting them to the death of a man by firing squad in the United States, for some Mr. Shurtleff's remarks stood out from the rest.'"

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Depravity

[paxcoder]

is the word for it.

Re:whoopie

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:whoopie

[endymion.nz]

You know there are plenty of countries such as the one I live in, where we have no death penalty? And guess what, we don't have murderers running around murdering people for the fun of it every day. In NZ we have 2 murders per 100,000 people per year, less than half the US rate. But then, we don't give handguns out in promo deals either.