It is amazing how technology can impact our lives in ways we least anticipate. Once again, its Twitter’s turn to surprise one and all in a manner that only one prescient man could foresee. It is now possible to receive real-time execution alerts through the popular micro-blogging site.
We are mostly measured in praise but let us make an exception for Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, the man who single-handedly transformed Twitter into a platform for real-time execution alerts, and a man who deserves a standing ovation for this.
"I just gave the go ahead to Corrections Director to proceed with Gardner's execution. May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims," the attorney general “tweeted.” He reportedly sent three tweets to his 7,000 followers around the time Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by a Utah firing squad.
"We will be streaming live my press conference as soon as I'm told Gardner is dead. Watch it at www.attorneygeneral.Utah.gov/live.html" he later wrote.
But his tweets did not go down well with some Twitter users. Wonder what prompted the backlash?