Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoWhy is Nadal Hassan's execution being livestreamed? What makes him so special? Why not other people's execution's live streamed? What Jared Loughner? Or Bryan Kohbeger?message-squaremessage-square24linkfedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up128arrow-down1message-squareWhy is Nadal Hassan's execution being livestreamed? What makes him so special? Why not other people's execution's live streamed? What Jared Loughner? Or Bryan Kohbeger?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square24linkfedilinkfile-text
Is televised executions going to become the new norm? This feels relateable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lY5JZgWvzQ
minus-squareTalcosis@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 day agoYa know what’s funny? Deserters, traitors, and war criminals are specifically hanged because dying by gunfire is an honorable death for a soldier.
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoI did not know that. Makes the whole appalling thing even dumber.
minus-squareTalcosis@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoI think that’s why the Nuremberg trials ended with hangings. But I might be wrong, and I’m having trouble finding references because the first however many pages of every search are all talking about this dude.
Ya know what’s funny? Deserters, traitors, and war criminals are specifically hanged because dying by gunfire is an honorable death for a soldier.
I did not know that. Makes the whole appalling thing even dumber.
I think that’s why the Nuremberg trials ended with hangings. But I might be wrong, and I’m having trouble finding references because the first however many pages of every search are all talking about this dude.