Mr. Carnahan, a Baptist and strong supporter of the death penalty, described it as a one-time act of mercy, and friends said today he knew it would cost him votes.
Bob Dylan, "Tell-Tale Signs" (Columbia): The Bootleg Series continues with a multi-disk set of rarities from the most recent phase of Dylan's career, which means mainly soundtrack work and outtakes and alternate versions from "Out of Mercy" and "Time Out of Mind" (Oct . 7.
You have called for a year of mercy, a time where all should be absolved of their sins if they confess.
By the time of 2011's Strange Mercy she'd succeeded in marshalling her surfeit of ideas into something approaching a skewed and hugely appealing take on pop, with the tension between the airiness of her vocals and the corrosive impact of her guitar playing at its centre.
And made amends for the outrageous omission of his venal, brutish gangster in Little Caesar, featuring one of cinema's all-time great exit lines: "Mother of mercy!
But let me challenge you to have your own year of mercy, your own time of showing that with enough love and support for each other there is room for us all.
They'd run out of superlatives to describe it on day three, your local hospital would run out of paracetamol by day five and, after that, doctors would spend most of their time doing mercy killings with the last scalpel, before – by day 14 – holding a sex-favour auction in which the excess meat was distributed to the highest bidders.
In time of pain and chaos, we are instruments of mercy and order.
In reply, Cardinal Medeiros wrote, "While I am and must be very sensitive to a very delicate situation and one that has caused great scandal, I must at the same time invoke the mercy of God and share in that mercy in the knowledge that God forgives sins and that sinners indeed can be forgiven".
I do it all the time now; I regularly take part in my fair share of mercy killings.
