Last Words

A Python script that posts the last words of each inmate on Texas's death row right before they were executed to my website, https://lastwords.fyi. Links to the full offender information & original last statement are included with each post.

Acknowledgements

• StackOverflow
• /r/learnpython
• Peeps in the #scripting and #python channels in the MacAdmins Slack
• How to write a Good readme
• The easiest way to create a README

What does this do?

• Gets the offender's name, age, race, and last statement
• Runs basic statistics on the above information, including generating plots
• Removes any inmates with no last statement
• Posts as many statements as possible to https://lastwords.fyi without hitting the Tumblr API limits and queues the rest

Lessons Learned

This was my very first Python project 👶 Check out my blog post where I write about the whole process!