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Facebook removes death row inmate’s account

Inmate was updating account via phone calls

UPI.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Facebook official said the social-networking Web site disabled an account set up for a death row inmate in Nashville.

Andrew Noyes, a Facebook public policy communications manager, said the account of convicted killer Nikolaus Johnson was disabled amid concerns others were accessing the account using the inmate’s password, ABC News said Monday.

“Since this individual does not have Internet access, someone else is maintaining the profile. Thus, the account was disabled,” Noyes offered in a statement.

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