USA to live-stream public execution, confirmed by Pentagon

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This is absolutely barbaric. Just when I thought Pete Hegseth/Trump etc couldn’t sink any lower.

Dude. It’s one thing not liking someone and being unmoved by reports that they’ve died.

Actually watching someone die by violence in real time and feeling literally nothing suggests you’re either a sociopath, or so damaged by trauma that you have become dead inside and totally desensitised to violence.

Either way, there is help available. It’s not healthy to be totally unbothered by watching people kill themselves or be murdered / executed / assassinated.

This is a little hilarious. 'Dead inside' because you're not bothered by a video clip of someone being shot is extremely over the top. You might as well say people are 'dead inside' because they choose to watch gory, awful horror films with hyper-realistic injuries, suffering, and deaths.

Anyway, why would you want people to feel traumatised and personally impacted by watching a stranger die? That seems a little counterproductive, and not particularly healthy.

If someone is empathetic and sensitive towards the people and animals they come into contact with on a daily basis, why would it be helpful for them to be deeply disturbed if/when they see a stranger die by violence?

I would think you are either lacking in major empathy from birth, have watched too much violence on screen or been subject to too much rl trauma. Hope you are OK.

I remember seeing Saddams Hussains execution on the TV and it was awful.

The US leadership is really losing its humanity.

I'm not surprised. In fact it feels like an inevitable development. And millions will watch and enjoy it.

Don't blame everyone for what Americans do.

This execution was brought to you by the great taste of Pepsi!

This.

People in more civilised countries need to stop dealing with the USA - stop holidaying there, stop buying their cultural and media output, stop buying their products. Let them know their behaviour is unacceptable. It's a tough ask as they have made themselves so dominant in the cultural hegemony but we can change that.

The problem is turning it into entertainment. The problem is the millions who will tune in and enjoy the spectacle. I am disturbed at the thought that I am probably surrounded by people who would actively enjoy watching a fellow human being die violently.

Any piece of news like this I think of the look on my children’s faces if they found out about it. The sad crushed look as they grow up and realise what humans are capable of doing to each other.

What? Firing squad? Is this real?
I haven't really watched the news for ages. I didn't think things like firing squads happened in America?? Nevermind broadcasted.
This makes me really never want to watch the news, best to stay in my own little bubble of ignorance 😕 stuff like this gives me anxiety

Not sure if it's been mentioned on the thread but the man is in a wheelchair due to having been shot during his capture.

I can't believe they are planning to livestream his execution. Irrespective of people's views on the death penalty the optics will be just dreadful and will guarantee him instant martyr status.

How can they be so stupid?

100% this….

This is horrific.

To Be honest, the swearing would be the least of my objections to a live streamed execution, @PickAChew - even with PG language, you’re still watching someone be killed.

I really can’t give much headspace or concern for this man. He injured and killed a lot of people. I don’t think of him as a fellow human, as someone called him further up the thread.

I don’t think I’d bother to watch it but I’ve seen other executions and not been affected when the person has committed terrible crimes. I have empathy for normal, good people and animals so it’s nothing to do with being devoid of empathy.

If he had hurt or killed someone I loved, I would want him dead. I think that’s quite normal, and if you do this kind of thing in the US, you know you may be killed. Now you also know you might be live streamed.

They said they felt relief in one case and shocked and sad for the family in the other. That’s not nothing. There are a lot of grief thief’s on this site though who claim to cry for months for someone they don’t know, and now ones who feel sorry for Saddam Hussain. Listen to yourselves.

Watching someone BAD die and not feeling very affected doesn’t make you a sociopath or dead inside etc. If you watched that happen to someone good and innocent and it didn’t affect you, then yes, but not someone who has committed terrible crimes.

It’s like a competition over who can be the most empathetic to the worst ever people on here. Weird.

History repeating itself. Northing new under the sun. I wonder whether Trump and Hegseth will preside over it wearing a gown and laurels over their heads.

It's only one poster, who writes in a way suggesting complete lack of insight or indeed any willingness to think things through (to put it mildly), they've just posted multiple times.

That was the point of the post, the irony!

double posted

Will they have a superbowl style ‘half time’ too!? 😳

Personally I think this is just a PR stunt. It takes 25-30 years before a death row inmate exhausts all their appeals and I imagine the lawyers will have a field day with this one under the ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ prohibition in the Constitution. I doubt it will ever happen (thankfully!).

Oh now two, my mistake.

I remember when a primary aged child at a school I was working at had been shown (by an older cousin) a YouTube video of a beheading in Afghanistan - he was not fine, and remained not fine.

It's repulsive.
Mass murderer this time, but what next? I see a dystopian world where the crowds are watching the execution of a criminal with learning difficulties, and baying for blood.
How anyone can be comfortable with any of this is completely beyond me.
The way we treat our criminals is one measure of civilised society. Trump has failed miserably, yet again.

I have no words...this is revolting.