https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFD-NDbIBlI

For those of you who don’t know, we stopped doing public executions because they were notoriously seen as spectacles and parties. People dressed up for them. They gambled. They even soaked handkerchiefs in the blood of the individual being executed, for keepsakes.

I wish that was the end of the brutality, but public executions inspire people within a community to find others to execute. To throw another party. It’s like a shark, with blood in the water. If this happens, there will be numerous more to follow. Make no mistake. This will devolve into witch hunts.

This country, that I grew up loving, has gone so far off the fucking rails!

The last public execution (1936) devolved into a carnival atmosphere with around 20,000 spectators, which was seen as an embarrassment to the entire country. And now, our clown of a leader is bringing them back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainey_Bethea

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    Not only that but it’s meant to be an act of state terrorism against dissidents.

    This isn’t being done to stop murder, the Trump admin is addicted to murder. This is being done to send a warning to anyone who opposes them that eventually they’ll be next if we don’t stop them now.