Can they stoop any lower? Surely this is inhuman?

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From The Washington Post

Wanting revenge for loved ones is human, but nothing can bring them back.

There’s no evidence the death penalty is a deterrent, and state-sanctioned planned killing is barbaric.

Entirely tangential, but I wouldn't use Gandhi for moral guidance.

[W]hen he was in his 70s and close to leading India to independence, he encouraged his 17-year-old great-niece, Manu, to be naked during her “nightly cuddles” with him. After sacking several long-standing and loyal members of his 100-strong personal entourage who might disapprove of this part of his spiritual quest, Gandhi began sleeping naked with Manu and other young women. He told a woman on one occasion: “Despite my best efforts, the organ remained aroused. It was an altogether strange and shameful experience.”

faculty.som.yale.edu/jameschoi/gandhi-the-non-saint/

Public streaming of an execution by firing squad is a step away from a functioning human civilisation. Normalising a violent death for anyone who is inclined to watch it.

I'm not discussing death sentence as such, the medically correctly administered one is/would be something very different from what they are planning now.

Looks like the most likely doomsday scenario will be Idiocracy then.

"There is no evidence the death penalty is a deterrent....."

This is mainly because we can't count what didn't happen. It may not be a deterrent to other people, but it most certainly is for the original perpertrator.

I just can’t get worked up about it, maybe that makes me an awful person I don’t know. Also you have to remember who he’s trying to appeal to.. there will no doubt be some people in America who would love to tune in to this.

America is incredibly backwards for a developed country. I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

Do I agree with live streaming it? No, do I care enough about it to give it any more thought than that? Also no.

The USA already have that with Trump in charge.

I should think that streaming somebody being executed will be against the policy of any platform involved. May be an interesting moment for tech. I doubt it will go ahead, it’s just bluster and desperation, their government is finally falling to bits.

Enabling / encouraging citizens to watch someone shot to death simply cannot be healthy.

The damage to the victims is done. Spreading the damage by making death a spectator event cannot be right.

I do not agree with the death penalty: I do not want the benchmark for my values and decisions to be set by murderers, rapists, torturers. ‘Thou shalt not kill’ (if you like) is the big moral dividing line between me and a murderer and I will not be dragged over the line.

The death penalty isn't within societal norms no more than murder is.

There would be hundreds of men murdered by the UK each week if the death penalty was reinstated on your terms.

May we normalise not sticking our noses into other countries’ judicial processes. We don’t like it when they do it to us.

They will do it on the DOW website

I still am fine with the execution

It does feel quite ironic that the other country that likes to hold public executions is Iran.

There were about 2,500 known judicial executions across the world in 2025, spread (unevenly) across 17 countries. Of those, only two - Iran and Afghanistan - carried any of them out in public.

This isn't even a facsimile for justice. I would have described it ss the crassest, most despicable form of willy-waving by an elected official I could have imagined, but I never actually imagined it.

Save the west by destroying western values. Fight Iran by becoming Iran.

If you object to these things because they’re barbaric then how are you justifying a similar act? Is it unacceptable to kill or not?

Probably charge a subscription fee

Supposedly devout Christians slavering over a state sponsored murder. What happened to "thou shalt not kill"?

And when you kill the wrong person, the real killer is free to carry on.

As Christie did, when Evans was hanged for Chrisites killings.

Yes, but it’s likely that the underlying infrastructure to broadcast is at least partly privately owned or licensed and will have live-streaming execution as a policy violation.

No it quite clearly isn’t, or they wouldn’t have committed a murder in a death penalty state. If you mean that perpetrator won’t commit another murder - well no. But incarcerating them in high security conditions will prevent that too.

I'm still fine with him being executed

It's bread and circuses, like ancient Rome!

Shoot the guy? OK, maybe. But livestream it? Words fail me.

I do agree. This isn’t our business as it’s another country with their own set of rules. I don’t think the livestream is appropriate, but if they chose to have both a death penalty, carry that publicly by live streaming it, that’s on the conscience of that country and its residents.
If we all looked after our own business -all of it - without involving the public, we’d live a more content life. We elect MPs that are meant to do that wrangling for us.