http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/10/to-kill-the-killer/#more-59955
It's one thing for someone to be sentenced to death for a crime, but it's an entirely different thing to weigh whether or not to watch that person have their death sentence carried out. For some it can give closure but I have to wonder, at what cost? Do the viewers themselves become a little deviant like the criminal they're watching?
I when CNN covered the lethal injection of the Oklahoma bomber and then when Saddam Hussein was hung it was released on news stations and on YouTube with many not even blinking or considering not watching.
Are we, as the viewer, in some way committing our own deviance and crime against ourselves?
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