Not only public, but sooner than 15-20 years after conviction, after millions of dollars and hundreds of appeals by the ACLU.
I also think that public flogging and the stocks would be useful punishments for lesser crimes rather than time in county jail.
Are we on the same wave length or what? There are so many reasons why this is rational.
1. WAY cheaper.
2. Punishment is over quickly so the perp gets another chance at being an honest citizen right away.
3. No prison "culture" where they learn how to be better criminals, get raped, etc.
4. Wannabes get to see the perp beaing flogged - public pain and shame will be a much better deterrant than jail time.
I have been posting my idea of the perfect punishment for the bishops who covered repeatedly,and have recruited homosexual priests and provided them with retreats which offer,"The homosexual,God's gift to the priesthood"(yes,I haave a copy that someone retrieved from their employer's desk)but no one has ever seemed to see the beauty of my plan but I am not deterred from presenting it. Eventually it should catch on.
I thought they should be stripped and loaded naked onto cattle cars and sent city to city across the country. All citizens could go down and jeer and spit and ridicule and shout at them for as long as they needed to vent and then the cattle car should be hooked up with the engine and to the next city the whole kit and caboodle of them would go.I have a good time imagining the 25 or so of them who would be riding on that cattle car.