Ghosts of Texas

Ghosts is a web-scraper and Twitter bot that tweets the last words of those killed on death row in the state of Texas. http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/ keeps records on inmates, including their offenses, sentences, and, if applicable, last words and last meals. I wrote a small script that crawls the tables on this site and tweets out last words at random. Some are sad, some are funny, some are angry and some are hopeful. I found it to be a really captivating and human corpus of words and wanted to showcase it. The Twitter account no longer runs and the government site has changed it’s structure, so the scraping will no longer function.

Check out the live site or the GitHub repo