Public execution 😳

[Tortuga]

This shows how much the world and government is changing. The first public execution since 1945...

 

US to livestream Army firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter, Pentagon says | Reuters https://share.google/WSMQu0DKwgzAokMPd

[lostinthought]

Medieval. Pretty sure that the only people who think this is a good idea have never seen someone who was shot to death. It's not like Hollywood/videogames. It's likely going to be messy, loud and take a lot longer than you might think.
The silver lining is that this, combined with other recent botched executions, might put the public off the idea of capital punishment in future. 

[Kwabena]

Iron and clay. 

Soft enough to let the people think that and the state are on the same level but hard enough to do public executions. 

[Jim Jam]

In ancient Israel executions were public too

[Shawnster]

(Romans 13:4) 4 for it is God’s minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear, for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword. It is God’s minister, an avenger to express wrath against the one practicing what is bad.

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=nwtsty&srctype=wol&bible=45013004&srcid=share

 

I actually think it would not have been televised had it not been for the botched execution in Tennessee. This feels like the federal government trying to say "look at me, I can do it better". 

[BLEmom]

It’s horrifying to think of the implications of a livestream execution in this day and age. 

Young people watching. 
How some will laugh and rejoice while watching. 

Literally the whole world watching in unison. 
The recordings that will be made and played over and over. 
AI being used to alter scenes. 
 

I know it’s all happened before but for it to be livestreamed is a whole new level. 
It’s similar to The Hunger Games. 
People are so desensitized and this will only increase all of that.