{"id":21098,"date":"2017-04-18T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21098"},"modified":"2017-04-18T21:17:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T21:17:58","slug":"this-crime-utterly-defies-every-sense-in-our-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21098","title":{"rendered":"This crime utterly defies every sense in our body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Violence is one thing. The cold-blooded, often-sociopathic nature of it is quite another.<\/p>\n

So it was when Steve Stephens reportedly lost a relationship with a woman, then sought out a victim at random. He found a 74-year-old retired foundry worker, Robert Godwin Sr., who he shot to death on a Cleveland, Ohio street.<\/p>\n

There’s more. Stephens decided to record this senseless act and he posted it on Facebook.<\/p>\n

He then fled to Erie, Pa., where he sought to order a fast-food hamburger. An alert McDonald’s employee recognized the customer as the killer and called 9-1-1. A police chase ensued. Stephens then killed himself with a gunshot to the head.<\/p>\n

One question that has come up is whether Facebook bears any “responsibility” for this dastardly deed. The way I see it, the answer is “no.”<\/p>\n

For the life of me I don’t know how Facebook could be expected to prevent the posting of something as hideous as what Stephens did.<\/p>\n

The case, though, ended the moment Stephens put a bullet in his skull. No loss there.<\/p>\n

For the family of Mr. Godwin, their misery is just beginning. Our hearts break for this innocent victim and his loved ones.<\/p>\n

Then we are left to wonder about how human beings can do such things.<\/p>\n\n

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Violence is one thing. The cold-blooded, often-sociopathic nature of it is quite another. So it was when Steve Stephens reportedly lost a relationship with a woman, then sought out a victim at random. He found a 74-year-old retired foundry worker, Robert Godwin Sr., who he shot to death on a Cleveland, Ohio street. There’s more. … Continue reading This crime utterly defies every sense in our body<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1676,4300],"class_list":["post-21098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21100,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions\/21100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}