Poll: Many Americans Support TV Executions

[arewethereyet]

now there's some reality TV for you !



Poll: Many Americans Support TV Executions
21 Percent Would Pay To Watch Bin Laden Put To Death

POSTED: 4:19 pm EST February 23, 2004

NEW YORK -- Two-thirds of Americans polled last month said they support the idea of televising executions -- and 21 percent said they'd pay to watch Osama bin Laden put to death.

Eleven percent said they would pay to see Saddam Hussein executed.

The opinions on executions came in a poll taken by Harris Interactive for the Trio cable channel.

Even though the poll found support for the idea, 54 percent said they wouldn't watch an execution on television.

Harris Interactive interviewed 1,017 Americans aged 18 or older at random Jan. 24-26. The margin of error for the sample is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.


http://www.local6.com/news/2867927/detail.html

[movonne]

1. This country is getting sicker and sicker. Maybe we will through

them to the lions and can watch it on TV.

[w4rma]

2. Back to the dark ages with some technology added. (n/t)

[Demonaut]

3. The chinese have it right, executions for corporate and political

corruption, make it public.

[arewethereyet]

4. if you want capital punishment to be a deterrent, make it public

carries much more weight.

[ghengisjim]

5. completely in agreement here

For the survivor watching crowd, weird... But why not? Sick maybe, but would it work as a deterrent?

[MuseRider]

6. This does not surprise me

but it certainly does disgust me.