“May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims,”

With that the first execution by Twitter was initiated. It was performed by Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.

In itself the technology is no big shucks. People have been using twitter for years now. (why I don’t know.) But at a humanistic level it feels cold. Yes the recipient was a cold blooded killer. But do we need to become as cold as the perp was? Such an event at least requires a phone call so that another human can hear the demand.

Techno death is a little too unfeeling for my tastes.