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Since there is corporal punishment in the US, why not have people on deathrow fight to the death on TV? I'm sure I would watch it everyday and it would make big bucks for the goverment instead of having these people drain on the fragile US economy. There could even be a pay per view special with Bin Laden!
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Since there's "corporal punishment" in the US...then I guess the TV show would be to watch all the inmates spank each other's bare bottoms. Personally, I don't care to see that. It might be popular in Seattle and San Francisco. [spank] [sex]
As for watching death beatings, it sounds like we're going back to the uncivilized practices the Romans used on Christians. Essentially, a new "gladiator" type of scenario, or simply grotesque killings. [chainsawkill]
I DO think that SOME executions should be made public (not to contradict my last paragraph)...such as Timothy McVeigh, et al. Otherwise, capital punishment is less a deterrant as people don't seem to "grasp" what the punishment is. When the country is attacked by such evil people as this, we should show the results of their actions. I would have to agree that Bin Laden would definitely fall into this category.