Should Executions Be on Television?
Howard Rosenberg’s May 19 column, “TV: A Witness for the Execution?,” failed to mention an important factor in the issue of whether executions should be televised: entertainment.
People are entertained by savagery and death, and television is an entertainment medium. Boxing matches. Ice hockey. Racing car crashes. You name it. There is an audience, a sizable audience, for mayhem, cruelty and violence. Including executions. Bring them on.
I’ll be the first to tune in.
LANNY R. MIDDINGS
San Ramon, Calif.
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