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Regardless of one's view on the death penalty, I've always found allowing people to view an execution to be incredibly disturbing.
by Teknoman117 8y ago
Regardless of one's view on the death penalty, I've always found allowing people to view an execution to be incredibly disturbing.
- userbinator 8y agoIMHO seeing the death of someone who may have tortured or killed many others is far from disturbing.
- jetti 8y agoI feel the same way, but I guess allowing people to view the execution is a way to show the public that the person is in fact executed and the state didn't just say that the person was executed.
- nrb 8y agoWouldn't viewing the deceased body have the same effect?
- TylerE 8y agoNo. A visit to any decent wax museum will show why.
- Teknoman117 8y agoRight. My concern is mainly that there is a common unspoken view that executions aren't more humane because it's a mix of being a public spectacle and the victim's family wanting the person to suffer.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoSurely, if you think your state is going to disappear citizens in place of executing them after sentence, the publicity of execution is the least of your worries? To me it seems incredibly anachronistic, even more than the US the odd one out in the First world for retaining the death penalty at all. Over in England they felt that viewing an execution could encourage spectacle rather than sentence. After some changes in public opinion and an enquiry public execution ended sometime in the mid 1800s, before they even ended beheading and quartering for treason! The death penalty itself lasted another century.
- sebazzz 8y agoAgree, feels like the middle ages when we used to have a pillory [0]. So out of time. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory