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Washington,.- A Fox News host apologized this Sunday after stating on his show that homeless people with mental illnesses should be executed by lethal injection.
"I apologize for that extremely insensitive comment," Brian Kilmeade stated on the same network, after the uproar caused by his words.
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The controversy originated last Wednesday during the Fox & Friends program, when the co-hosts were discussing the murder of a Ukrainian woman in North Carolina committed by a man with a long criminal history and who, according to his family, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. During the conversation, one of the presenters, Lawrence Jones, opined that homeless people with mental illnesses should accept mandatory treatment or be incarcerated. Kilmeade added: "Or the involuntary lethal injection. Just kill them." His statements sparked a wave of criticism on social media, including that of California Governor Gavin Newsom, who responded by quoting a biblical verse: "Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be heard." Following the controversy, Kilmeade retracted: "Obviously, I am aware that not all homeless people with mental illnesses act as the aggressor in North Carolina did, and that many of them deserve our empathy and compassion."
