“I think the impact would be greater if the bodies were simply left to hang there until the necks rotted through, and then what the birds hadn’t eaten the fell to the ground to be food for the dogs and other land based scavengers.”
Yeah, but after a few days the stench would be unbearable. People shouldn’t have to put up with that. Let the dogs and birds eat at the garbage dump. Keep public executions clean and civilized.
I think the victim should have first dibs on pulling the drop lever. If the vic didn’t want to, why then I think the locality could make some money by raffling off the chance to dispatch offenders by pulling the lever.