COMMENTS:
No, but I think 1st-degree murderers should be executed.
I'd serve free popcorn and drinks.
No it's too disturbing. And I don't think rapists deserve death either.
But I really believe that anyone who is a sadistic murderer like Paul Bernardo, they should be put to sleep for eternity. People like that have forfeited their right to live IMO.
I dont believe in the death penalty so no, I wouldnt want to watch such barbarism.
"An eye for an eye can only lead to blindness" Margaret Atwood
No the death penalty, in my opinion, is wrong in every case.
Somthing like this would simply further brutalize our societies.
I remember a couple of years before 9/11 when the Taliban had public executions in the soccer stadium.
There were these Afghani women who were smuggling footage of Taliban atrocities out of Afghanistan, and when I saw that I thought that it was one of the most horrible things I have ever seen.
Although I do see the attraction. Public executions have been commone throughout history and in the "modern" West too, but somethings might better be left in the past.
I agree with inter_regnum.
I wouldnt go, I dont have the stomach for violence.
by ABC on Tue Jul 05, 05 5:59pm
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I wouldn't go. Just looking at the pictures on Rotten dot com is disturbing for me.
One theory of public executions is that it would be a more powerful deterrent if all of us got to see it. Another theory holds that the public would be horrified into mass rejection of this ultimate penalty.
I do believe that you may think you support the death penalty so long as it is an abstract, hidden affair, but I don't think you can say you favor this punishment unless you are willing to pull the switch on the condemned yourself.
The Chinese have this mass executions conducted in sports stadiums, and according to what I read, crime is unaffected by them.
And although I'd like to say "no, I wouldn't watch," the fact is that it would have a compelling horror about it. I suspect that after one, I would never watch another.
Just keeping it real, ABC.
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