Talk:Public execution

Picture removal
I have removed the picture. It's horrific. Relevant as it is, I think it is not something which should be experienced when looking over an encylopedia article. This is not a shock-horror site. I would not expect, for example, when viewing say the article on suicide, to see a graphic image of a suicide in the very moment of his or her death, splattered across the front of a bus or train. Likewise, seeing a judicial murder, with the very moment the bullet passes through the victim's brain, this is intolerable. 41.227.136.65 (talk) 13:24, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
 * No WP:CENSORSHIP. This image does depict a gruesome scene but is not particularly graphic in nature. Plot Spoiler (talk) 16:34, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Merge with Capital Punishment?
Since this page is relatively modest in size, and seems to have limited scope for expansion, maybe we should consider merging it into the main article on capital punishment. Thoughts, anyone? jxm (talk) 23:46, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Not convinced. Could be expanded. Think it's useful to have a "home" public executions article, given that there are specific pages for Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea. Plot Spoiler (talk) 18:02, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The recent deletion and redirect was inappropriate, so reverting it was quite correct. Thank you . The intention proposed here is to merge - that is, to transition this article into its own subsection in Capital punishment, where the historical material is already anyway. The move would be done complete with refs, links to the specific pages for Iran, etc. Thoughts? jxm (talk) 20:11, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Agree with merge, this appears to be a content fork. The capital punishment article is far more developed in terms of history/time and scope. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 15:18, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

✅ I went ahead and did the merge and placed the content, pretty much intact, in the Contemporary use section. It seemed to be the most prudent place for it. PLease feel free to change/edit it if you have other ideas. --Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (Talk) ☮ღ☺ 19:31, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * This article is very biassed by centering in one point of view of contemporary aversion of public executions. But, how about the public executions made by auctorities and even modern states as seen in popular culture even in the XXth century (e.g. autos de fe in the modern Spain). --Bestiasonica (talk) 17:50, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

article full of modern political euro trash
The truth is, that the law for 2,000 years (ie, Black's book), suggests that death is the ultimate removal of freedom. Law often protects criminals from an angry town which would kill perps, and sees a better end to the future.

HOWEVER. Law also chooses execution (and more rarely public execution) *occasionally* as a means of reminding the public (or swaying a trend), that law sleeps but does not die. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.207.25 (talk) 18:51, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Public execution stopped
English 86.12.193.139 (talk) 22:17, 28 November 2021 (UTC)