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I would personally be opposed to the public viewing of executions, and I would not personally watch one, any one, if it were televised. However, Ustwo has an interesting point about how easy it is to approve of the death penalty when we have sanitized and simplified it so much. I don't feel the death penalty is an effective deterrent (there are statistics that show that it is and that it isn't ) and I think that with the ever increasing discoveries of people who are innocent and sitting on death row, we need to be very careful about using it.
Are there any countries that do televise executions?
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