Idea: Pay-Per-View Executions

[cwand]

What do you all think about pay-per-view executions? They could start with Timothy McVeigh to get the ratings up. With all money going to charity, I think it would be an excellent way to raise funds for a worthy cause.

There are many high-profile people on Death Row, especially in Texas, so there wouldn't be a shortage of participants. :Q

 

[Static911]

hmm...interesting question...however, is it "moral?" Don't wanna start a war, but jus wondering if some1 benefits from some1's death (even tho they are guilty as hell)

Static911

 

[KameLeon]

I can't understand what could be exciting about watching someone dying..

 

[geno]

I think someone's been listening to too much George Carlin

 

[divinemartyr]

Personally I wouldn't want to see it but I do know in many many countries there are still public executions where thousands watch.

dm

 

[cwand]

KameLeon-

Up until the turn of the century, all executions were public and the event always attracted a large crowd.

I don't think there's any question that this would be very popular among viewers.

 

[luv2chill]

sick and wrong...

by taking pleasure in another's death you're no better than the one getting executed.

l2c

 

[ZeroCool420]

sorry, doesn't interest me.

And I'm highly against the death penalty in the first place.

For one, it's incredibly expensive for the taxpayers, and 2, it's plain immoral.

 

[Ulfwald]

In countries where punishment for crimes is swift, and also public, crime rates are low.

 

[saxman]

Let there be eternal love in all of our hearts.

 

[fluxquantum]

cwand, you are a sick individual.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Blech... as if there wasn't already enough killing on TV already. My gut feeling is that this would just be a bad idea...

 

[SSP]

Bad idea.

 

[Elledan]

This idea is nearly as bad as the whole idea of death penalty itself.

 

[prodigy]

I wouldn't watch that. :disgust:

 

[SHT49781]

well you guys havenb't taken into consideration that the person may have killed many other people for getting this death sentence. though this will never make it to telivsion. only way things could possibly balance out is that all the money made was donated to some charity.

 

[Elledan]

SHT49781, It's not a bad idea, but the problem is that death penalty itself is just plain wrong and without any logic.

A good alternative for the death penalty? Labour camps. Let them work till they drop dead. That way they're much more profitable and it saves us the embarrasment if the convicted and executed person later is found out to be innocent (which has happened already too often).

 

[PakG1]

it saves us the embarrasment if the convicted and executed person later is found out to be innocent

Elledan, I'm not sure that this would be correct. You probably understand how much cash wrongly convicted people get from governments and the big ballyhoo about wrong convictions, especially when the person's still living and been in jail for a long time. Now take out jail and put in labour camp. Ugh, I can see the papers now.

The concept of a public execution makes sense economically but not morally. Sorta like Temptation Island.

 

[Elledan]

PakG1, FYI: a labour camp isn't meant to kill people. Everything is better than a case like this:

A brutal murder has been committed. A young man was arrested and in a lawsuit he's found to be guilty and is sentenced to death, even though the man keeps saying that he's innocent.
Then some evidence suddenly shows up which proves that the man is innocent after all but unfortunately, he was just executed the day before...

 

[PakG1]

Ah, you're on at this hour too?

Ya, I can see where you're getting at, and I have to agree with you. But while I definitely don't think that the labour camp scenario would not be a worse scenario, I'm not entirely sure that it would necessarily be a better one either. Anyhow, no conflict of vision here.

 

[AgentOrange]

I think the death penalty is a good thing. Just think about it for a moment, your wife,father,mother, or even kids being murdered by someone. I know that I would want them to suffer the same fate that they gave their victims. Did they let their victim live life out in a labor camp? No! They took life from them and they will never get it back.So why should they be given mercy?

The tax money is another issue.Have you seen where alot of your tax dollars go? If they stopped spending it there it would just be spent on something useless such as Clinton's office space.

 

[KotchY]

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[KotchY]

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[KotchY]

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[Elledan]

<< I think the death penalty is a good thing. Just think about it for a moment, your wife,father,mother, or even kids being murdered by someone. I know that I would want them to suffer the same fate that they gave their victims. Did they let their victim live life out in a labor camp? No! They took life from them and they will never get it back.So why should they be given mercy?>>

You're looking at it from a wrong point of view.

Have you ever heard the expression: &quot;A Hell on Earth&quot;? IMHO killing those criminals is just showing them mercy, for they don't suffer at all!

Just look at the methodes being used:
* electric chair: everything is being done to ensure that the guy on the chair doesn't feel a thing;
* lethal injection: this hurts even less, the person put to death this way doesn't feel anything.

Only the firing squad, hanging and the gas-chamber come anything close to making the criminals suffer. Still, it's over before you know.

Another disadvantage of the death-penalty: it's expensive. Even putting a person in jail for the rest of his life is cheaper than a 'quick' execution.

When talking about labour camps, I'm not talking about cozy vacation camps, but something which is much like the labour camps used by the Soviets. Look up some pictures and/or stories of those camps and you'll get an impression of what is meant by the expression &quot;A Hell on Earth&quot;.