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Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order

Posted by Soulskill on from the internet-over-we-lost dept.

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.'"

5 of 556 comments (clear)

  1. Re:An all time low? I disagree by asylumx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Mod Up" != "I agree"

  2. Re:I love religious hypocracy. by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Welcome to my friends list.

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  3. Re:What's wrong by KharmaWidow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At least you made your trolling blatant.

  4. Re:Nice editorializing by dissy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Tweeting a legal and properly appealed capital conviction is the "all-time low for internet use", but I suppose that using the internet to distribute Jihad snuff films like Daniel Pearl or using the internet to recruit racial and religious hate is just fine.

    I dunno, this still has to compete with 4chan and 2girls1cup.
    My guess is far from the all time low of what is on the internet.

  5. Re:An all time low? I disagree by interkin3tic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Mod Up" != "I agree"

    Yes! Totally! I wish I had mod points today for you!