More drug-related murders occur every week in this country than legal executions in a year, maybe in a decade.
These were not legal executions because there were no trials.
No one ever expected the pace of legal executions in America to slow down.
"I wasn't talking about a legal execution."
It was not the first legal execution in Utah.
In recounting the incident yesterday, he said he believed that legal execution was an act carried out by everyone in the community.
"The only legal executions are performed by order of the court, in manners prescribed by law."
The state, on the other hand, had a rich and proven history of legal executions.
However, the "home government" would roundly denounce and disallow the legal execution of these regulations.
And people have said a lot in the weeks since one of their own drew world attention to the use of legal execution.