@LastWordsBot

@LastWordsBot is a work about people’s last expressions of emotions, regrets, wishes, love, and hatred for life. LastWordsBot tweets a sentence from offenders’ last statement before their execution with their name, gender, age, and date of execution on Twitter every day.

​Tweets from LastWordsBot is touching and provoking. Knowing only the basic information of the offenders’, audiences resonate with those peoples’ one-line stories. Whatever they have done in the past is no longer important here. What is important here is to see them as human beings, to listen and to understand those peoples’ last words in their life. Those may not be glorious and honorable saga but are the truest and loudest whispers. @LastWordsBot is a hymn to life.

I used the puppeteer library to scrape texts and information from the official website of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Then, I use the RiTa library to reform the text for the tweets.