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2019-11-12 -Obits-

Utah death-row inmate featured in best-selling book is finally Tango Uniform

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ‐ A Utah death-row inmate who killed his brother’s wife and her toddler because of his strong polygamist beliefs in a case made famous by the book "Under the Banner of Heaven" has died of natural causes, prison officials said Monday.

Ron Lafferty, 78, died at the state prison in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper, Utah Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kaitlin Felsted said.

The state attorney general’s office had expected him to be executed next year and become the first American put to death by firing squad in nearly a decade.

Lafferty’s case became well-known after it was featured in Jon Krakauer’s 2003 book about radical offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Krakauer also wrote "Into Thin Air" and "Into the Wild."

Clearly the man is fond of prepositions.

Lafferty claimed he had received a revelation from God to kill the mother and child in 1984 because of the sister-in-law’s resistance to his fundamentalist belief in polygamy. Lafferty carried out the killlngs with his brother, Dan Lafferty, who received a life sentence.

Did anyone ever check him for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder?

Brenda Lafferty was beaten and strangled with a vacuum cleaner cord. She and her 15-month-old daughter, Erica, died after their throats were slashed.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Few things say Biblical retribution the way a vacuum cleaner cord does. Not to be too Jesuitical, but did the Lord God command an Electrolux or go for broke with a Kirby?

Posted by Cesare 2019-11-12 09:40|| 2019-11-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 I hate such bastards in my soul. Handling the word of God deceitfully, wolves posing as shepherds. Sons of Belial. Because of them, modern society lost the tenuous link to righteous living through the Word of God. Because of them, the leftist can mock God and joke about the Bible and Christ, insult the honest and the God fearing. These fuckers are the Left's stereotype for christians.

We became 'fringe christianity' because we did not conform to organized church bureaucracies and kept to ourselves, not smoking or drinking or fucking around. And these pretenders, these judas-fuckin, blaspheming cockroaches... they got to be bandied about as examples of 'what you'll become if you think about God and the Bible too much.'

The only people I hate more than muslims.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-11-12 10:45|| 2019-11-12 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 died of natural causes

Was he an Epsteinian?

Posted by Skidmark 2019-11-12 16:30|| 2019-11-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Not to be too Jesuitical, but did the Lord God command an Electrolux or go for broke with a Kirby?

Unless the Good Lord has a wicked sense of humor, probably not an Electrolux

Posted by Lex 2019-11-12 17:39|| 2019-11-12 17:39|| Front Page Top

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