Live-Tweeting A Firing Squad, Ctd

A reader writes:

Your reader wrote, "If the people of Utah could see the executions, and they were horrified, they would demand change, and executions would stop."

I have heard this argument before, but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that people witnessing an execution would be horrified. Executions in the past were public. And was the effect to cause a horror of capital punishment? No, it became an opportunity for a picnic lunch to let the kids watch. People who advance this...