Could you watch an execution?

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Watching a film and there’s an execution and of course there’s people sitting behind the glass watching and it made me think, could I watch it?

I don’t think I could. Even if they murdered someone I loved very much, I’m not sure I could sit there and watch someone else die.

But then others say it can bring a sense of closure to them.

What about you?

If it's "tightly regulated" why do so many prisoners have mobile phones?

You can't simultaneously not know something is happening or where, but at the same time know that it's regulated.

Are there gaming consoles in prisons or not?

Because they're smuggled in, via drones, and even via visiting solicitors, and prison officers. Yes, really. Officers can be bribed by wealthy career criminals. According to experienced prisoners, it's incredibly easy to get contraband in, if you know how.

They buy them from approved sources. They are not ‘provided’….as I said…..in answer to a post

what are you talking about?

@YouWillFindMeInTheGarden I asked you if there were gaming consoles and digital/sky tv in prisons.

The reason I asked is because your initial response to the poster who referenced gaming and sky was one of ignorance - where did you hear that?, where is that happening? etc.

Now you're saying that console use is regulated.

You cannot be both ignorant of gaming in prisons (what? where?) while at the same time knowing that it is regulated.
These are not Schrodingers consoles - they either exist in prisons or they do not - which is it?

my reply wasn’t if ignorance, I know exactly what some prisoners have…..no sky tv and as far as I’m aware no ‘free PlayStations’!!! As someone else pointed out, it’s probably an uneducated daily Mail myth!
.as far as I know it’s Xbox only… not ps/other ‘console’…. Just a refurbed basic Xbox. Obvs no WiFi

But by saying saying ‘console’ you give the impression they are on ps5 ,the poster I referred to is clueless and my ‘what,where?’ Was aimed at that. Before it grows legs and becomes ‘fact’
It’s a basic Xbox with fifa 2015 and the like….paid for by them

Console just means console. I don’t keep up to them, but okay.

If they can get mobile phones into prison, I'm sure they can get their choice of games console in. The whole thing is just a joke to me. Prisoners sat on their arse, on their phones, playing games, being provided with free food and drink, free heating and light, free rent, while working people pay for it all. It stinks.

If someone harmed one of my children, I'd have no problem watching and would want to press the button myself.
For men like Ted Bundy I'd happily watch too. Some people deserve no sympathy. They are true monsters and have zero chance of rehabilitation. I believe in the death penalty for violent criminals. Hamas terrorists who shot innocent civilians running for their lives etc, all deserve the death penalty.

The problem with that is that TV and play stations keep people occupied and easier for staff to control.

At a slight tangent, I do think there should be more done education and skills wise for prisoners. I know spending money on prisoners is not popular but surely giving people skills they can turn in to work when they leave gives them a choice to do something that is not crime.

Does anyone remember Gordon Ramsey setting up a bakery in Brixton prison? It was for a channel 4 TV series. The bakery is still going and supplies Café Nero.

Ramsey also employed some of the prisoners post release.

www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/21112014-baking-bad-former-brixton-prisoners-enjoy-sweet-taste-success-bad-boys-bakery#:~:text=SWEET%20SUCCESS:%20Chris%20now%20runs,the%20launch%20of%20new%20products.

They can’t ’get them in’

what would you prefer they were doing? The heating/light is used by staff as well…I mean, is that ok. It’s our working conditions after all!!

People took the tube to the last public execution in London. They laid on special services.

Televisions and Xbox / Playstations in prison are commonplace. Why are people on here disputing that?

I remember seeing a drama about Gary Glitter and the outcome was he was sentenced to hang and they showed the actor (who was the spit of GG) being literally dragged kicking and screaming to the gallows, it was quite disturbing even though it was fiction so I can imagine why seeing Sadam Hussain being taken to the gallows for real was traumatic.

I don't know. It's very strange.

I think I might know the case you mean. I found it incredibly sad for everybody it affected, including the lady who was executed.
It makes you wonder how different things would have been if she had received the care she required for her mental health issues.

This reminds me of Aileen Wuornos, except that she was convicted of several crimes. Her childhood sounded horrendous.

Yes, Aileen wuornos had an appalling childhood, a sad life and a very sad ending.

It made me think of Lisa Montgomery. She was one of the people on federal death row and was executed in the latter days of the first Trump administration.

Yes I could watch an execution, without a doubt. I'm speaking as a woman who's life has been changed by a brutal attack by a group of men.

It may be an execution of a female…

Definitely not.

Although it occurs to me (rather darkly!) that the only circumstance in which I’d attend would be if it were one of my children receiving the death penalty! I don’t think I could actually look at what was happening, but would have to be there I think.

(I don’t anticipate either of my kids receiving a death penalty incidentally 😂)

Good!!