You Are Invited To A Good Hanging at 1900 Hours

Im not a fan of the death penalty.
But you have a way with words

Old grannies would actually go and take their knitting and sit and have ringside seats to watch someone having their head cut off by the dreaded Guillotine!

My Great Grand Mother would have been in her element,lol
By all accounts she was a hard hard woman,or at least thats what my father and grand father told me.

Would this be entertainment to you?

No,I dont think it would be.Im quite squeemish!!!

Would you enjoy it if the person who was being hanged had violated you or your family

Thats a harder question to answer,because I dont think hypothesis and this issue go hand in hand.I might though,despite my reservations and misgivings about the death penalty.

Could you ever watch an execution if the person had committed a terrible terrible crime?

I watched the Saddam one,and I have to say it wasnt good viewing.I felt a bit angry that his fellow Muslims taunted him as he went to his death.

I'm sorry, Wolfie, but I could not find that entertaining; not even if the person was a bad criminal. I just can't watch blood, and gore, nor could I watch a person hang. I would have nightmares forever after that.

Life was much more brutal in those days wolfie and most of the people were there to celebrate that it was someone other than them on the chopping block. Almost a celebration of life rather than a spectacle of death. Interesting anthropology at work there during that time.
Today, I couldn't watch an execution through to completion. If it was the perp of a crime visited on my children or family I know that my emotions would be strong in the 'kill the creep' line, but I couldn't follow through. It would be like a victory for him to have me reduced to his level of violence.

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

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.

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.

I don't have the stomach for that sort of thing wolfie. It would totally gross me out. And NO I couldn't watch even if they had done something to my family. I say an eye for an eye but I couldn't watch it being done..Lori

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

No, oh no, this would not be intertainment to me..ugh. I could not even imagine watching something like that. Even if someone committed a terrible crime against my family, I still could not watch this happen to that person....and even if I did, it wouldn't make what they did to my family go away or better. I too, am not a big fan of the death penalty so of course this wouldn't be something I would be interested in watching. Wow, I can't believe the the old grannies would take their knitting occupy them while they sat there waiting for this to happen, yuck.

Thanks for sharing Wolfie=)

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!