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: StandDown Texas Project

By Steve Hall

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Simon Owens posts, "The Live-Tweeting of a Murderer's Execution," at The Next Web. Ben Tribbett was not a witness to Teresa Lewis?s execution last Thursday, but this did not stop him from tweeting a minute-by-minute narrative of the event as it took place. The execution ? which occurred in Virginia?s death chamber ? reached its end a few minutes after 9 p.m., with the first news outlet confirming her death around 9:15. But Tribbett, a Virginia-based political blogger, began his live updates as Lewis was walked into the death chamber. ?Virginia Execution Protocol: 8:50: The condemned inmate is led in restraints to the execution chamber where she is seated on the execution gurney, then placed on her back,? he tweeted. ?Guards then strap the inmate down at various points...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).