Should Executions Be on Television?
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To televised executions without context is to remove the public will. A simple reading of the charges and conviction will not suffice.
Required is a graphic presentation of the crime, perhaps on a split screen, with its attendant horror to the victim. The moment of realization that one is going to die at the hands of this criminal. The crime’s ongoing effects. The unending sorrow of the victim’s family and friends. The loss to the community of a citizen. The loss of contributions to society. The most grievous losses of all, those intangibles of a human life made in the image of God.
LAWRENCE J. LANG
Lompoc
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