That was theory, that the state (or monarch) had to show both their power over life and death, and that the public needed to see thst justice was done. We (the

That was theory, that the state (or monarch) had to show both their power over life and death, and that the public needed to see thst justice was done. We (the British) figured out that didn’t even remotely work back in 1783, and frankly I don’t think that we require a second run at it.