Timber Loftis you wrote:
*Doing it in public makes a proper spectacle out of it - a better deterrent I think. Now, this also attracts a frenzied wacko crowd, but the wackos in this world today are so easily attracted to anything, we must simply ignore this fact. I think the spectacle occuring in front of a gallows is simply more poignant that it occurring at the prison gates. The folks at the prison gates cheer and act a fool, cause it's not in their face. But, and anyone who has ever watch the life leave a human being can attest to this, killing someone in public will certainly have a profound effect on at least some of the spectators.*
I can't agree here. We had for centuries gallows, goulioutines (sp?) and whatever. The convicted were treated in the most cruel ways before they've been torn into pieces for every kind of crime and everything happened in public. Following your conclusion (don't get me wrong, I dont want to pick at you or offend you!) earth should be a peaceful place now. But I can't recognize any profound effect. Though I must admit, that the human approach (if it is that) doesn't seem to work either. Maybe we still didn't find the right way to deal with this kind of things
