You Are Invited To A Good Hanging at 1900 Hours

I never did understand why anyone would want to see such a thing in real life or why in God's name they would take their children to witness such brutality. Sure, I joke about "off with their heads" and stuff like that, but to actually be an eye witness to something that horrible is disgusting. Now, could I watch an execution? Sure, if the guy killed my mom or something without a shadow of a doubt. In fact, the guy better pray the law gets to him before I do in such a case. Other than something along that line, no, I don't care to witness an execution.

OK Wolfie, thats kinda morbid and gross. I don't even like killing bugs. I hate to see blood and I would not like to see parts of bodies being chopped off. I had read some where that a man who was doomed to have his head cut off told his friends that if he could he would blink his eyes to show them he was still alive after his head was cut off. He had heard a person is still alive for about a minute or so after wards. His head was cut and everyone watched him blink his eyes a few times. So no I would not go watch someone suffer even if only for a few minutes. I still wuv you, Wolfie even if it was a morbid discussion.lol xxxx

Had I been living in that era with that crowd I would have done it along with them.Watching the hanging.Times have changed and the scene has also changed.We are modernized.I would rather sit down in the modern comfort and enjoy the gore flick instead.

I wouldn't want to watch any sort of execution. However bad the crime it's still murder to take a life. Judging by some things posted on You Tube, ( I've only seen what the tv showed), there are many young people who would thoroughly enjoy this sort of thing.

Guillotines are too complicated. I've got an axe..... I'm just not into specator sports, I like to participate.

I think over the years we have been taught to be more sensitive to issues such as these. In those days watching something like this was just as commonplace as the executions themselves. Now they would no more behead someone in the town square than we would be present for it. Although, on further consideration, I think that for many, a morbid curiosity might get the best of them.

no i will never watch this kind of thing , as i cant stand the sight of blood & it makes me sick in the stomach. My head starts spinning at the sight of someone being tortured this way.I have seen it in movies and i cant even see it in movies. ~pinks~

I guess a big part of it was that it was the aristocracy in revolutionary France that we being beheaded so it was bound to bring out many of the working people to make sure the rich got their comeuppance. Things were much simpler in those days, people didn't tend to analyse so much. Now we look for any mitigating circumstances and court cases take forever because of all the reports that are done and witnesses that ae called. People saw things in blck and white, good and bad and it was probably very rare that anyone ever considered that there might be an injustice done. Why did hangings stop being done in public? I guess it was because it was a time when people were starting to think more about the judicial system and how reliable the verdict was. I think the possibility of things being uncertain is what makes people feel uncomfortable - after all hanging or beheading someone is pretty final. I could watch a hanging if it was someone who had done something bad to my family, a beheading I would probably not want to see at all

to be totally honest I don't think I could watch this for any reason let alone entertainment! Didn't they used to have a lot of vendors selling things and entertainers and minstrels in the crowds too? I think I would throw up just at the thought of it! If someone had comitted a truly terrible crime I still don't think I could watch as he was killed. I watched someone I loved dearly die relatively peacefully and that, although difficult I could handle more than watching someone being killed! xxx

actually if you go on youtube they have videos of beheadings gross i know, but i wasnt the one who looked it up, my ex did so its okay. But itd be just to gross to watch, especially for entertainment. The sounds alone would be way to much to handle, i couldnt be able to actually watch it.

I dont think so

that reminds me of the monty python movies and the public stonings,when you said about the grannies taking their knitting.i don't think i could personally stomach that.i really don't know if i could watch a execution even if the person had harmed anyone in my family.cheers sue

Oh I don't think I could watch even if there was no TV etc. but I would feel that justice had been done if one of these people had violated my friends and family in a bad way. I believe in forgiveness but I also believe in justice and giving them a life of luxury in prison is no justice so to the murderers, yes off with their heads! Ellie :D

I may go may be once just for the curiosity. But i would have a nice feeling bcos some ones life is being taken from them. Thats not a good thing eventhough they may have done something horrible.

I don't think I could stand to watch that, no matter who the person was or what they had done. Weird though considering I love hospital dramas on the telly! Well, I don't think there has been a head-chopping on any of them - yet! If there were no tv, computers, etc. I'd probably find plenty of other things to do. You never know, my house might even get tidied occassionally!

Look at all the people who go to horror movies and love watching the violence in them. It shouldn't surprise us that many in society would want to watch such things especially if they didn't have the outlet forms we have today. It's a catharsis. It lets them get emotions out that they might not otherwise. One reason horror movies do so well. Could I go to one? Probably especially if we are talking about someone who hurt someone I knew or cared about. I think I would want to see it then. I'd want to make sure they could not come back and hurt anyone else again.