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Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter

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It was a very modern way to announce a very old-fashioned death.



Shortly after midnight in the US state of Utah, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff picked up his Apple iPhone, opened up a Twitter app on his handset and began tweeting.



But Mr Shurtleff's 134-character composition was no ordinary post. This was not a piece of miscellany from the 53-year-old's home life, a link chosen to amuse or interest his followers, nor even a political prod at his Democratic rivals.



Instead, Mr Shurtleff used Twitter to announce that most important of all things: the death of a human being, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner.



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 wrote.



The message would have been seen by the 7,000 or so users who follow Mr Shurtleff on Twitter.



But thanks to the exponential way in which messages are spread on Twitter - being retweeted by those who find them interesting - the Utah politician's words soon found their way to a wider audience.



Full story & link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10348685.stm
 
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