Can they stoop any lower? Surely this is inhuman?

[Touchwood2654]

From The Washington Post

It's America though, they must think that they can do as they please.

Live streaming it is disgusting.
We are heading back to the times of a day out at the gallows.

I don’t know if I would rely on ethics being much of an issue for the tech companies. They allow, and have allowed truly awful things on their platforms. Notwithstanding sex abuse, animal torture, dubious porn, they also had those jihadi videos that Isis et al posted. Many countries around the world carry out capital punishment, publicly too. Some have it in principle, but haven’t used the death penalty for a while. It is only a wet weekend, historically, since European countries abolished the death penalty.

I suppose that once you allow spectators at all to witness the state execution of a person (say town square for gibbit, inside viewing room), is it any different broadcasting it. I am not saying I agree with it, or indeed the execution of somebody by the state. Just that maybe the public spectator issue is already happening anyway. In a more limited way, of course.

Arguably, if you’re going to have a justice system which includes this, you should be transparent about it which includes access to the outcome.

very like vegetarians/vegans saying you shouldn’t eat meat unless you’re prepared to kill it.

I’m teaching dystopian literature this afternoon; I’ll be referencing this.

Exactly. (This is attributed to Ghandi, not sure if he defo said it, but I agree with the sentiment). This is vile. The man is in a wheelchair just as a matter of interest - it’s not like shooting him will be hard, if you are that way inclined. Jeez.
Having the DP, and actually carrying it out is bad enough. Doing it on tv? Jeez this Hegseth bloke is psychotic - he was practically foaming at the mouth with joy at the thought. My American family are mortified by this - albeit, this is just one thing in a long line. Awful.

I am in support of the death penalty (I never used to be and worked in prisons for years).

However, I am completely against live streaming it.

We know killers get a sick thrill out of watching people and animals suffer and die and so this just feeds into their sick fantasies.

If only it was fiction.

Yep
It's absolutely sick.
I saw a comment earlier today saying something like "so when a Middle Eastern country does this kind of thing, or the Taliban, it's barbaric and to be (rightly!) condemned- so what is it when the USA does it?"
They're going backwards. It's like medieval times over there.

I agree.
It’s horrifically reminiscent of the public killings in Saudi Arabia etc, with people watching for what? Kicks? Fun? Being able to boast ‘I was there’?
By all means use a firing squad (preferable to the injection method imo) but in private, no audience or witness.

murderers shouldnt be protected:

Yeah, this is the response from people who can't quite work out that state-sanctioned killing in a country with a huge violence and murder problem probably isn't doing the job it was intended for

Correct

Yes, I find it funny that the sorts of Americans who love all this (who tend to be very right wing and often fiercely Christian) are the same people who think the Middle East is ‘backwards’.

I believe wholeheartedly in the death sentence. I think they should have had a vote from the nok of the victims and killed him that way …. Not live streamed it , that’s going to get all the cranks watching it . He doesn’t deserve any dignity though

The US gets more Handmaids Tale every day. They can finish the broadcast with blessed day.

If you don't want to please the cranks, don't have the death penalty at all.

Even if you agreed with the death penalty - do you need to watch FFS?

The US is ever more depraved under this administration.

Live streaming it is utterly horrific. It reminds me of the scenes in The Handmaids Tale.
How many children will end up watching this too? I despair.

The UN has just stated that live-streaming an execution would amount to torture.

I can't see how it could be constitutional.

Someone on threads just called it 'a snuff movie produced by the Federal Government'.

They'll probably put it on pay-per-view to make some profit out of it.

Trump doesn’t care about the constitution. This wouldn’t be the first unconstitutional thing he’s dine (though it may be the worst).

Absolutely agree.

Even aside from that key truth, many of us have lived and worked in the US - or still do - have family and friends there, and so on.

What's happening in the US is affecting the entire planet. Looking the other way and saying "that's nothing to do with me" ceased to be an option a while ago, in my view.

Awful barbarism. I thought we’d developed beyond public executions. Anyone who watches that will feel deeply disturbed.

It will end up on our global internet.
Your children will see it.
We can turn off the TV, not look when it goes viral, put all the child blocks on the internet, TV, YouTube...
But it will spread though school etc

Are we sticking our noses in? Has our Gvt sent someone to America for 'talks', have we boycotted them, put sanctions in place?

We can have an opinion. This is a moral ethical issue. We are allowed an opinion and discussion.