Do you think you'd be able to watch a public execution on live television?

Fake violence, I can deal with. But real violence nauseates me.

If they deserve it, then of course. I haven't got time for any hardcore criminals and I may as well gain some enjoyment out of their demise!

Interesting reading the advanced stats. If only I was not away this weekend, I would have changed my vote to reasonable!

Nice to see you think I am respected!

Yes.

Yes, but I think a lot of people might be willing to watch one, but not another.

You are a very nasty mean person. I can't beleive you can live with yourself being such a rotten person.

Be able to? Yes. Want to? No.

I watched Kevorkian do doctor-assisted suicide on 60 minutes a few years ago. We can watch murders and all sorts of other violence on TV every night if we want -- what's the big deal? (not that it's good, but this sort of thing is already all around us)

No!

That's a terrible thing to say. I like Brian.

I doubt I could even watch it on videotape. I had to cover my eyes during the electrocution scenes in The Green Mile.

I know! Wasn't that so scary, especially when he didn't wet the sponge.

I wouldn't go out of my way, but if others were watching, I wouldn't leave the room.

I would be able to, depending on the method. Lethal injection would be boring, firing squad would be too quick. I think gas chamber or the electric chair would provide the most entertainment.

definitely would not watch!!

I lose my temper a little too often, I admit, but I'd hardly describe myself as nasty, mean, and rotten.

You should cool your boots maybe take some prescribed drugs to calm you seriously see a DR.

Meds don't work on me. In fact some make me even worse. As for a shrink, why? Why, when I have such good friends as Twist and Maarten to chat with? I happen to be of the belief that having good friends is the key to good mental health.

You are a very nasty mean person. I can't believe you can live with yourself being such an anonymous person.

Not anymore. I used to think I'd enjoy it.
I've had a change of heart.

Leave Brian alone. What did he say that was mean?

and Jody: Reading it was worse.

Hell, No!

Could someone please explain the mean nasty thing that Brian did to me? I must be a blind fool.

Really? Was it more graphic or something?

It was more suspenseful... the gory details didn't bother me. Reading is always better than the movie.

Allright Maarten!

Nope, no way, I don't believe in that kind of crap.

That's what my teachers say.

maybe not over dinner if it was an electrocution with the hood off.

It depends on how the execution is carried out. If it was a greko-roman gladiator type, yes. Beaten to death, no.

Yes, because I have a tv.

No way.

Would I *want* to?

no for 2 reasons...i am opposed to the death penalty and i cant watch animals die w/o crying i wouldn't be able to handle seeing a person die

Yes, I'd be *able* to, but I wouldn't *ever* want to. It would certainly upset me a great deal no matter what the person had done. Perhaps it would bring to light the true horror of state sanctioned murder?

Never before have I seen the name Brian so many times that didn't have something to do with a profesiional skater or a washed up action star!

What if that person brutally raped one of your family members then kept them alive for a month while torturing them to within an inch of their lives and then cutting off all their fingers and toes and burning them to death? Would you be able to watch the killer die with no pain by lethal injection? Personally I would have the same treatment given to the murderer.

For someone like that, I would find ANY from of execution, no matter how brutal and prolonged, to be too quick. I think the term "fate worse than death" applies to a case like that.

If the victims family had the final say on the punishment, I think I would need to cool down for about five years until I became rational again, however I believe I would still call for their death. Probably by electric chair. Of the current death penalties, that seems the most horrible way to die.

Things like that don't bother me per se.
I have never had a problem watching anything on TV while eating, reading or doing anything else. IE: I have watched the 4 Faces of Death movies while eating dinner.

Sounds great!!!!

No, that would be very unpleasant.

What if it was that creepy William Hinks????

yeah! And maybe poor Scott Wallace needs to be put odwn too. End his misery.

no thats morbid

Scott is just insane. It's not his fault

Yeah. And how about that poor dog? Lucy had really become attahced. And if Hinks didn't send the dog, who did? Joek herrick perhapos?

NO NO NO NO! The death penalty has GOT to go.

What if that guilty guilty person was actually innocent? This isn't an "eye for an eye tooth for a tooth" society anymore. I suppose you expect a thief to get it's hand cut off?

I would not allow anyone to be put to death if there was any doubt they were guilty. The evidence would have to be irrefutable. You're right. This isn't an "eye for an eye tooth for a tooth" society. This is a society where the victims pay more than the criminals. Which is worse?

AHHHH! I haven't watched it yet ...I taped it! Don't say another word!!!!!!!

I'm still not so sure he's actually the serial killer. Maybe he just got a taste of some sick sense of power after pretending to be one, and now he really likes how powerful it makes him feel to scare people. We'll see...

If it was anonymous, yes!!

Doh!

yes, yes, yes!!

Yes, especially for a heinous crime, any crime to do with children. I absolutely feel all executions should be in a public square. It would be a deterrent. Some people may say that is barbaric, no I don't think so, because what I think is barbaric is the escalated crime and violence against children, older disabled people, peace loving people in general.

How could anyone watch that? If I watched it, I would probably die along with them. I can't take my own pain or other people's. Just watching something like that would hurt.

After a fashion I agree with you. As far as I'm concerned, once you murdered a child, you've LOSt your human rights. I've been chastised by many of my fellow Amnesty inernational members for thinking this way, but it's how I feel.

I agree with capital punishment, I don't think I could watch it myself though. I'll just stick to the WWF thanks!

no way

I really don't see how you could watch someone be put to death and be okay with that.

It would be good on digital T.V. you could look at it from all angles

i know that I wouldn't enjoy it but the point of seeing something like that is not for enjoyment. To understand and recognize the importance of life. I am sure that the people that really SHOULD appreciate the fragility of life the most are the ones that abuse it the most and would likely get a kick out of this type of event

Depends on who it was.

I am opposed to capital punishment, and see no valid reason for televising such a thing