Utah Attorney General Announces Firing Squad Execution via Twitter

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

It's ridiculous that an Attorney General is using Twitter as a platform for communicating an execution. I think there are some things that people don't "need to know" by the second it happens. I also don't really "get" capital punishment, just the logic of it. What are we trying to achieve... justice... okay... by doing the exact same thing this person did though? Two wrongs make a right? It's murder, isn't it?

The USA has to be the most hypocritical place, on so many levels it's not even funny.

Its no different then the usual post execution press conference.

Personally I think Twitter as a whole is stupid, but people are demanding up to the second information.

Its no different then the aG standing in front of the press and saying

"At 12:01 am this morning we gave the go ahead to execute Gardner, may god show him the mercy that he didn't show his victim"

I think that people get up set because they have this idea that Twitter is all happy and light and brain dead celebs telling us that they had eggs for breakfast and nailed Lindsay Lohan for lunch"

Its a media which to me is irrelevant when it comes to the message.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

Not disagreeing with your general point, but life in prison sentences are subject to the same appeals process.

That's not really true, you're not going to get the same avenues of appeal when the sentence is death v. life. There are simply more avenues to pursue and an increased level of appeals in a death penalty case. Not to mention the fact that the jurisprudence is quite different.

[Day Tripper]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Well Miley Cyrus said she hated twitter on Letterman last night, so expect that communication avenue to go the way of the VHS recorder.

I think that only applies to the twelve year old valley girl demographic, Mel. Maybe that's all the better for it's future.

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

Texas kills something like 200 people a year - mostly uneducated minorities with poor legal representation at their trials. Nobody even notices because it's out of sight out of mind.

Where did you get this number from?

According to this list it looks like there have been 460 since 1982.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/executedoffenders.htm