[MayflowerMadam]

“but a public execution is too barbaric for us.”

In America, public executions, usually hangings, LITERALLY were “a day at the park”.

AI: “Why People Attended:

ENTERTAINMENT: Towns on the frontier had very few forms of amusement, so a high-profile execution functioned as a major social gathering.

FESTIVAL ATMOSPHERE: Crowds sometimes brought blankets, picnic baskets, AND CHILDREN, while local vendors sold food, souvenirs, or photographs.”

[MikelTackNailer]

Public executions reinforced the necessary lesson that evil actions usually result in grim and final consequences. I think modern society would greatly benefit from televised air-dancing, demonstrations of alternate current and other solutions no later than two years after conviction with a set limit of appeals.

With parental advisories, of course.