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I'm against capital punishment, but man, if we're gonna do it, pull out all the friggin' stops! Don't try to pretend there's some dignity to the affair. Go full out bread and circuses. Sell tickets, popcorn, stadium seating. Think of some new and gruesome ways of doing it. Let the criminals know what's waiting for them if they're really bad. (Yeah, it may endanger a few prison officials if the inmates watch, and make a martyr of some folks, but you know, whatever, that stuff might happen anyway)
It's barbaric, and a gloss of "privacy" and "dignity" won't change that. I'll be a bit upset if that close circuit broadcast of McVeigh's execution doesn't make it to the web.
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