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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.'"
... he was just spreading the news as it happened.
And concurrently giving the world a fine example of why people in his state are routinely referred to as Utahrds.
Obvious question. Why would people grant him mercy when they've shown none to their victims? RoI vs RoS thanks. I prefer it being on the RoS.
Om, nomnomnom...
Widely held to be a mistranslation by whom? People who want to be able to kill people for their own reasons and still be able to tell the masses its not OK to kill? Either the bible is the literal word of God or its not... sort your faith out, its out of control.
mediocrity rules, man
You can't have your cake and eat it too. Apologists such as yourself do nobody any good. :(
mediocrity rules, man
The word you are looking for is constituency. Not that I'd expect proper spelling from someone that's probably a tea bagger anyway.
"When the president does it, that means it's not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon