West Virigina lawmaker tweets that Hillary Clinton should be 'hung' - CNET

On Friday night, it was the tu of West Virginia Republican lawmaker Michael Folk. He was upset that presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wasn't going to be tried for being more than careless with her use of a private email server.

As WOWK-TV reports, Folk offered this thought: "Hillary Clinton, you should be tried for treason, murder, and crimes against the US Constitution... then hung on the Mall in Washington, DC." The tweet has since been removed.

These are intemperate times, but to call for the execution of the presumptive Democratic nominee seemed a little much to some.

Folk's tweets have now been locked in the "protected mode." However, Folk's employer isn't pleased at Folk's suggestion of a public hanging.

He's a United Airlines pilot and company spokeswoman Mary Clark told me: 'We are appalled by Idea advocating harm to any person. They do not represent United Airlines and we are looking into the matter further."

Neither Folk nor the Clinton campaign immediately responded to requests for comment.

However, Folk initially defended his hanging thoughts by telling the Charleston Gazette-Mail: "What I called for is for her to be tried and the maximum penalty for treason is death. Technically it's not death by hanging..."

Some might suggest that technically he was still suggesting that Clinton should be executed.

Still Folk believes he did nothing wrong and Clinton did.

He added to the Gazette-Mail: "People do wrong they need to be held accountable. And exercising a First Amendment right is not necessarily doing wrong." No, not necessarily.