Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed

totallygeeky

I sincerely hope this is foiled by technical problems and treated as snuff content. A sickening thing to try and encourage people to watch.

expedition32

The last public execution in my country ended up such bloody debacle that the crowd ended up attacking the officials. The death penalty was quickly abolished after that.

techteach00

We're going down a dark path. An uncivilized one. It will eventually touch people far more innocent than the criminal in this case.

buildsjets

And so the Trump Administration joins ISIS and Al-Quaeda in the “Livestreams Executions” club.

bjourne

Absolutely despicable and very ominous sign about the return of barbarism. I hope the new American pope protests. Turning an execution into entertainment is not a Christian value.

SpicyLemonZest

It’s incredible how dedicated Hegseth is to being evil. So many regime officials are merely greedy or suck-ups, and he’s out here manufacturing completely pointless evil that Trump did not ask for and will not benefit from.

dzonga

if you've read enough history you know the authoritarian path the u.s is headed down towards. this public execution buys implied consent to execute 'enemies' of the state. it also forces state governors aligned with the president to livestream executions of those on death row as 'deterrent'. then later go execute enemies of the state. however as most people know through projects like the innocence project - some people on deathrow are innocent but are victims of racism etc.

ChrisArchitect

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011771

treetalker

Now where did we put that superior intelligence? It was just here a second ago …

thomassmith65

A quick web search¹ shows these as the only other nations that still hold public executions: Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Somalia . Those aren't places whose approach to justice the US should emulate. Civilized governments did away with public execution a century ago² In fact, one argument I recently have used in support of the war with Iran is that the Islamic Republic still holds public executions. ¹ https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-where-public-e... ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_execution

lazzlazzlazz

If you don't want to see it, you don't have to. Unfortunate that so many comments here are very interested in limiting other peoples' access to view justice, no matter how grim it is. Again: don't watch if you don't want to. A fitting end for an utter monster.