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...McVeigh's pending execution, and Attorney General John Ashcroft's guidelines for its limited broadcast (only via closed-circuit signal to victims and survivors in Oklahoma City) have raised a plethora of questions entwining freedom of the press and the cold hard facts of capital punishment. None are readily answered...
...Whose rights are we protecting when we bar the broadcast of an execution? And how do we justify hiding the execution itself even as we loudly proclaim its efficacy as a deterrent to crime? Would a free broadcast of McVeigh's death serve a positive purpose by blunting our fascination with death - or would it just provoke further violence...
...Because his crime is unique in American history, McVeigh is viewed as a special threat. But what kind of a threat does his death really represent? Would a national broadcast of an execution for a crime that was, ostensibly, targeted at the entire nation really present more problems than an execution shown to a select group of people...
...leap most often advocated by those who want to do away with them. They believe that capital punishment would lose the support of a civilized society if people actually saw the state commit the act for which it seeks retribution. Perhaps we should have our executions broadcast as widely as the Super Bowl...
...accommodate survivors who want to see for themselves the death penalty carried out. Since the 1980s, all 38 states with capital punishment, and the federal government, have made provisions for at least one family member of a killer's victim to look on, either in person or via a broadcast. With the court-ordered release last year of a videotape of death chamber preparations in Tennessee for Robert Glen Coe right up to the lethal injection, and with clips from the 1999 electrocution in Florida of Allen Lee Davis available on the Internet, executions are beginning to sneak into public...