Miswritten cliche?

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> America's top news sources expanded the meaning of  "execute" forty-odd
> years ago or more to include "to murder (esp. more than one person)
> vengefully or methodically."

Bit, it's a *cliche*, for pity's sake! Is *nothing* sacred?!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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