Can they stoop any lower? Surely this is inhuman?

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From The Washington Post

It is disgusting and disgraceful as is anyome who chooses to watch the execution live on TV.

Will they have a split screen of Hegseth having a wank while watching it? I bet he's going to enjoy the replays, the freak.

Hopefully it'll just be shown to any victim family members who choose to see it but I wouldn't put it past Trump and his pals to broadcast it to all and sundry.

Didn’t realise he’s paralysed from the neck down. Are they just going to wheel him into a courtyard on a hospital bed and shoot him in bed?

What is unequivoqual evidence?

A video? Deepfaked

DNA? Planted, falsified, irrelevant, lab mix up

Witnessess? Paid or intimidated

Admited guilt? mentally ill, coerced with threats of harm to loved ones, psychologically tortured

Yes there are times when I think we are as sure as we can possibly be sure that someone is guilty, but every single person in prison (in the UK) following a guilty verdict has been found guilty 'beyond resonable doubt'.

And there have still been some pretty significant miscarriages of justices in recent years, despite modern forensics and 21st century technology - and possibly the biggest one yet still to come!!

If you start trying to grade 'levels' of guilt then you make a complete mockery of the justice system.

Out of principle I will never watch this.

There is scientific research that human brains have evolved in complex modern societies to have higher functioning communication capacities. That includes social cues, mirroring etc. No good will come of giving this a public platform.

I'm not in favour of the death penalty anyway. I certainly cannot see why you would be interested to watch this.

Sadly lethal injection seems to be the method that is most likely to go very wrong.

Live-streaming an execution is awful. Daesh did that and the world condemned it. Maybe the world should condemn this too. The trump administration are now just beyond belief.

Anyone read Vernon God Little? It's a satirical book from the early 00s, really funny and won the Man Booker. It was around the time reality tv had taken off and we all thought our standards couldn't get any lower. It tells the story of a death row based reality tv show where the prisoners are on camera 24/7 and the public can vote. Person with the least votes gets the next execution, televised live. Excellent book and a very funny take on elements of US culture, but a black comedy. When I heard about this live steam that's what sprung to mind

Absolutely.

I heard that people opposing this will take legal action as TV stations are legally not allowed to show something like this.
So it’s probably just another fucked up Trump lie.

Why? He doesn't deserve to live at all. He's committed the highest of moral transgressions and will be punished accordingly.

Making death into theatre only satisfies the most sadistic urges in humanity and degrades society to a point where you wonder how a once great nation can come back.

You would think those in the Trump administration would be wary of pushing for such extreme and public punishments for treason/ high crimes.

My DH said the same thing. Anything to line the pockets of the miscreants in charge.

Made me instantly think of Handmaid's Tale.

I also think this will glorify his death ny people who believe in martydom.

The current world is so confusing; appears normal in one respect - going to work, school, maybe booking a holiday but yet somehow there are people who think that a live firing squad on TV is fine.

Well yes a lot of left wing people took glee in watching that video; creating freeze shots etc

Sick people everywhere, and the left are just as violent as the right now

They’ve said they’ll stream it, not necessarily on TV?

Yes, normalise the rawness and realness of a brutal death, and before long it really won’t seem such a big deal ☹️.

Where have I said it's ok? But for people to suddenly say they're concerned about children seeing this on line, it makes me wonder whether people are even aware of the stuff already out there, and I don't just mean porn.

Not a single one of the streaming services would allow it on their platforms, under their terms of service. It would probably only be shown by Truth Social.

Everyone’s sympathy is of course with the victims. But that doesn’t make execution acceptable.

Is that title correct? The book blurb doesn’t seem to match.

… and women

He killed 13 people in 2009, he’s just exhausted the appeals process

If they can get any lower then rest assured they will. As a nation the USA is regressing very fast. Trump's party will get a drubbing in November. But it will probably just be a hiatus.

Yes! Gilead - the new America