Originally Posted by BobK

I'll take this even further: I believe all executions should be VERY public. Like hanging at high noon in the town square. Really. I believe in the DP although I do have reservations about it. But, if we as a people, thru our elected representatives wish to execute people for certain crimes, we should see what we are doing and face up to it. Hiding the process away in some facility with limited viewing is cowardly. If we are gonna kill people, it should be out in the open.
I also would favor large poster size or bigger pictures of the victims of whatever crime led to the punishment. And maybe a reading of the description of their crime. Sort of a this is what he did and now this is what he gets. Then you get the real deterrent effect.
Still, it all smacks of shooting fish in a barrel to me. This is one of those cases where I find myself holding two conflicting opinions.