[snowrip]

public executions both in Europe and the US used to be top spectacles within living memory with the number of spectators that would do justice to a soccer match

Whose living memory are you talking about? Do you have ANY examples of the garbage you just spewed, or are you just talking out of your hat... again?

[Mac1]

"Whose living memory are you talking about?"

You would have to be in your 80s, but the last one in the US was in 1935 I believe. Was so well attended and photographed, there was a national outcry and everything after that was carried out within the prisons. Black bloke called Bettea.

Then there were the lynchings up until the 1960s, but those were outside the law so don't count.

Will have to figure out how to post links; never seems to work.

Don't wear a hat BTW.