watch'em die!

Talk about reality TV!

http://www.local6.com/news/2867927/detail.html

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NEW YORK -- Two-thirds of Americans polled last month said they support the idea of televising executions -- and 21 percent said they'd pay to watch Osama bin Laden put to death.
Eleven percent said they would pay to see Saddam Hussein executed.
The opinions on executions came in a poll taken by Harris Interactive for the Trio cable channel.

Even though the poll found support for the idea, 54 percent said they wouldn't watch an execution on television.

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You thought Americans were barbaric before?

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You thought Americans were barbaric before?

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No, not really.................public executions were a source of mass "entertainment" in Europe for hundreds of years? (cf. The French Revolution...........burning witches etc.)

People are used to real violence on TV..............Waco? 9/11? wars, road accidents, murders etc.

Given what the public are used to and the history, it is perhaps unusual that criminal executions ever became private affairs?

Just a different slant

A hanging used to be a good day out for the family at one time here. So i don't find it surprising, just alittle disterbing. But then most people have not experienced violent death up close and personel. Curiosity being what it is.

I don't think that lethal injection would draw much of an audience......not spectactucuar enough.

Televising the executions of Osama Bin Laden and/or Saddam Hussein would just add to the martyrdom.

Anyway...it's only 21% and 11% respectively that say they'd pay to watch the executions. Must be Texans...

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Televising the executions of Osama Bin Laden and/or Saddam Hussein would just add to the martyrdom.

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Eg****ingzactly!

That is quite disturbing.

Personally, I'm against exucution to begin with. Televising it as entertainment is just adding to the existing disgrace of it. I know in the old days it was common, but then again so was bathing only yearly, wearing mercury as make-up, useing lead for pipes, a inbreding your royalty (to keep to blood clean). People were even more stupid back then than they are today.

Look at the Romans. Gladiator battles were a way for politicians to curry the favor of the people. They were outings where man and their sons would go bond. The world has not necessarily progressed from then. I would not pay to watch someone get killed, I can just watch the news. While slightly disturbing, they are out to make money...

-Cheers-

let's throw in some other words..

Boxing
BullFighting -> rodeo

and ponder..

Who would find an execution even closely exiting...
Let's just spice it up.. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS...

or what about clubbing to death..
being burned alive...
now that's an exciting execution..

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Originally posted here by Conf1rm3d_K1ll
Televising the executions of Osama Bin Laden and/or Saddam Hussein would just add to the martyrdom.

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Saddam...who cares. Now OBL... i wouldnt want to watch it or even have it televised but id pay to do it myself. and those that would consider him a martyr, id throw them in for free.

i spent quit a few years in texas BTW and still long to be there.

I'm not gonna say whether I support it or not, but if they aired it I would probably watch.

while people are on the topic of killing people, I must say, Use cruel and unsusal punishment. The very idea of using a punishment that isnt, makes it not a punishment anymore. A punisment by nature has to be cruel and unsusal for it to have any effect, in fact to be considered a punisment at all it needs to be cruel and unusual.

So, A soft modern american execution does not have 1/10 the impact of something like say, crucifiction, or a slow methodical method of torturing someone to death. Those seem that they would have more of an impact then the painless way of letheal injection.

So that said, how come I cant pay $25 to watch Saddam or OBL get tortured for 3 hours on pay-per-view. That would be damn good entertainment.

Putting executions back in the public view would have the same effect that they had 200 years ago when you could go down and watch someone get hung. It would make people realize that you could be killed if you did something bad. Not to mention that I like the idea of watching the deaths of people that this world could do without.

Yes some may consider this uncivilized and cruel (I went over that one). But let me ask this, Isnt life one big comprimise, and is all too often about picking the lesser of the 2 evils. Granted killing someone is bad, but if that person has been a cause for great pain for a few (or thousands of people) isnt killing them in a way that inflicts a great deal of pain getting just what they deserve. Not to mention being a method of closure for the relatives/loved ones of the victems of whatever the criminal did.