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What do people think about public executions? Televised public executions? I do not know how well these worked in the past as a deterrent. They did not seem to work all that well on the likes of Billy the Kid, Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, etc.

The Bible certainly has a great deal of public executions-- they are in the Old and New Testament as well. But Christianity developed despite the various public executions of some of its early leaders.

I just do not see threats of death working all that well with monsters like Ted Bundy, Richard Allen Davis, John Evander Couey, etc.