Surely, 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 worrie

Surely, 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.