Americans draw the line at livestreaming ‘spectacle’ of Fort Hood shooter's execution

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"It’s not a practice we should be doing in modern society," Reid from Ohio said. "It's rather medieval, in my opinion. I'm certainly pro-death penalty for heinous crimes such as that, but I think that … turns it into something of a spectacle that it really doesn't have any business being."

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"I think they're missing an opportunity," Jason from Virginia said. "It should be pay-per-view and all the proceeds should go to Gold Star families."

He continued, "You have someone who was a murderous traitor to our country. And there's not a lot of coverage about that. So I think the public needs and deserves to know the consequences to, well, FAFO."

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"I think it's a message that we're big and tough, and we don't have much humanity left," Paul said.

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Vice President JD Vance also said Friday that he was not sure that the federal government will be livestreaming the execution, also adding that he would not personally view the livestream.

"The world's gone crazy," Anya said. "We need Jesus."

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In his statement, Archbishop Broglio, former president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and head of the military archdiocese since 2008, called upon “all men and women of good will to ask that this decision be reconsidered,” and encouraged any Catholics involved to disassociate with the proceedings.

“As I would in the case of a procured abortion, I oblige any Catholics assigned to the firing squad to request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church,” Archbishop Broglio said.

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In his statement, Archbishop Broglio — who emphasized that he “had the sad duty of presiding and preaching at the funeral of Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in that attack” — renewed his “heartfelt sympathy” to relatives of the Fort Hood attack victims. He said Hasan’s attack “disregarded the dignity of the human person.” But on the cusp of this public execution, he said, “the dignity of the human person is again at stake.”

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I don’t know what the purpose of it is outside of giving people something else to, justifiably, bitch about just so you can accuse them of TDS.

It makes the guy more of a martyr and gives his worthless life more meaning. It won’t actually deter anyone in the future. It desensitizes civilians to more public executions. There’s no positives and only negatives.

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