It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would enjoy them than be repelled by them.
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
How can you make a revolution without executions?
I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres. . . If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.
Gin for executions, beer for birthdays, wine for weddings.
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights. . . why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?. . . Why shouldn't executions be public?
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
