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Offline phinix

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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #31650 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 03:10:58 »
Quote from: noisyturtle on Sun, 11 October 2026, 17:00:44
The public execution thing is beyond the pale, but then again, what isn't these days.
I feel terrible for the MAGA nationalists children who will forced to watch it by their deranged parents

US is executing someone in public?
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #31651 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 04:44:15 »
Yes.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #31652 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 05:06:35 »
I think I've read about it being possible to go visit an execution in some prisons in the US before that, but you had to go through a security procedure.

What happens now is that it is broadcast live on TV, like in the movie Starship Troopers — which was satire!.
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Re: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)
« Reply #31653 on: Mon, 12 October 2026, 08:36:47 »
Quote from: Findecanor on Mon, 12 October 2026, 05:06:35

 broadcast live on TV


I am not personally opposed to capital punishment in principle, but the current administration always does its dirty work in the ugliest and most disgusting way possible.

PS - the guy is in a wheelchair ....

Think of the utter shame that must bring on the members of the firing squad.
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