NEW YORK (AP) -- Electronic terrorist Daniel Reeves was sentenced to death this morning. Convicted of electronic terrorism last Thursday, the jury arrived at their sentencing decision in less than half an hour.
Reeves is the latest in a string of attackers on the electronic infrastructure of the United States. Some of his more notable exploits include shutting down the power grid in Manhattan for 30 hours in May 2005, bringing down the airline reservations system for nine days in July 2005, and launching attacks on several government and military systems during 2006 that were so severe that the government had to shut down for days at a time. His most recent exploit, however, was the most extreme: he erased the data in the National Medical Records System earlier this year and has been estimated to have caused over 9,000 deaths.
"He's messing with our way of life!" said one woman who was not identified. "Death would be a blessing for his cursed soul!" cried a man from New York who was clearly distraught with the power outage. His mother died in a hospital that afternoon.
Reeves will die in New York's electric chair on April 25.