"Eugene R Fidell, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, told the BBC it was a "really unfortunate decision".
"To livestream an execution is just so out of the Middle Ages. In a way, we are so past that as a society, at least I thought so until today," he said."
You don't hear much about the most recent dark ages, when the people of the middle ages lost their streaming.
But the US is the most likely to have betting markets set up to see how many bullets hit, where they hit and who got the blank. All delivered by enthusiastic sports commentators, streamed to your device.
The Trump administration: making all those parodies of the US a reality.