8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

spacedcowboy

Who are the fucking ghouls that want to see someone executed live ? 20% of the population ? Jesus fucking tap-dancing christ almighty.

lenerdenator

Didn't Trump cancel the live streaming of the military execution? I'd rather we got rid of the death penalty pretty much everywhere but the military, but I don't see how watching an execution really benefits anyone. Watching another human getting shot isn't going to benefit your soul or whatever you want to call it.

chasd00

heh we're seriously considering live-streaming someone's execution but live-streaming a woman taking off her shirt to the public would be an outrage. I lean toward "America f*ck yeah!" but I know there's plenty of stupid here as well.

ReptileMan

Who wouldn't be opposed. It is boring. Make it guillotine with a slide and bowling pins at the end. And take bets on Polymarket whether there will be split or no - then the numbers will be reversed. We are moving anyway towards Escape from NY/LA world. Let's at least take the good parts from it.

snapcaster

I go back and forth on this. I'm generally opposed, but I also think that if we have a death penalty it shouldn't be so bloodless. It should be a beheading that the governor of the state has to do themselves. We shouldn't be able to pretend we aren't doing something incredibly violent

HumblyTossed

I wouldn't want to watch it. I think we should abolish the death penalty. Make people live the rest of their lives with their mistakes.

satisfice

The other two in ten are not scheduled for execution.

satisfice

I support the death penalty for people I personally want to kill, which is why the death penalty is probably a bad idea.

ManuelKiessling

…and once again, „flood the zone with shit“ works just beautifully. They push out one outrageous diversion after another, and you fall for it.

k310

Repost: [0] From Daisaku Ikeda: The Courage of Nonviolence [1] quote Violence vs. Nonviolence: The Struggle of the Twenty-first Century I am also reminded of a moving episode that Leo Tolstoy related in a letter written two months before his death. The letter, dated September 7, 1910, was addressed to Mahatma Gandhi. The episode went something like this. There was a test on the subject of religion in a certain girls' school in Moscow. A bishop had come to the school and was quizzing the girls one by one about the Ten Commandments. When he came to the commandment "Thou shalt not kill," the bishop asked: "Does God forbid us to kill under all circumstances?" The girls each answered as they had been taught. "No," they said, "not under all circumstances. We may kill in war or as legal punishment." "Yes, that's right! You've answered correctly!" said the bishop. Then one of the girls, her face flushed with indignation, spoke up: "Killing is wrong under all circumstances!" The bishop was flustered and marshaled all his rhetorical skills to convince the girl that there were exceptions to the commandment against killing, but to no avail. "No," she declared. "Killing is a sin under all circumstances. It says so in the Old Testament. Moreover, Jesus not only forbade killing but taught that we must do no harm to our neighbors." In the face of truth in the girl's assertion, the bishop's authority and verbal skills were of no use whatsoever. In the end, he could only fall silent. The young girl, Tolstoy wrote with evident satisfaction, had proven victorious. Let us amplify the words of that young girl--"It is wrong to kill, even in war!" And let us broadcast them to the world! The twentieth century was a century of war, a century in which hundreds of millions of people died violent deaths. Have we learned anything from those horrific tragedies? In the new era of the twenty-first century, humanity must be guided by the overriding principle that killing is never acceptable or justified--under any circumstance. Unless we realize this, unless we widely promote and deeply implant the understanding that violence can never be used to advocate one's beliefs, we will have learned nothing from the bitter lessons of the twentieth century. The real struggle of the twenty-first century will not be between civilizations, nor between religions. It will be between violence and nonviolence. It will be between barbarity and civilization in the truest sense of the word. end quote [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060304#50060591 [1] https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/resources/works/essays/peac...

mamonster

My read on this is that Hegseth told him "Hey we have this Palestinian-American Islamist terrorist why don't we execute him", Trump said it was a good idea and bailed out once someone told him that using a firing squad on a paraplegic would be bad optics.

pointlessone

The real “news” is only 8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution

vaadu

What President Trump did was make us think past the sale. He made everyone agree to executing the POS by turning the argument into whether it should be televised.

jaygray0919

From a carefully selected sample, 8 in 10 Americans oppose ...