Would it be acceptable to show executions on Pay-Per-View

[Frodo]

I'd have no problem with televising executions.  In fact I believe they should be.  If we as a society are unwilling to accept the blunt truth of what capital punishment entails, then we shouldn't have it.  However, charging money to see an execution?  I think not.  Certainly not for the purpose of making money for a private enterprise.

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I think that this would make capital punishment more of a deterrent to capital crimes. Our notion of execution is very abstract. If people saw executions, some might think twice before causing trouble.

Given that the death penalty is delivered mainly through lethal injections, I doubt it would have the impact you think it would.  If, however, it were shown in a more horrific form (hangings, firing squads, or through an electric chair) than your argument might have more weight.  Given what I know of our society, people would be more bored than horrified with a lethal injection -you will likely have more yawns than gasps.   

I could be wrong though.....

[Frodo]

Although lethal injection would not be as graphic as other forms of execution, it would still shocking. We are so shielded from death in our society. People die in hospitals and in private and dead from war are almost never shown on tv or in newspapers. I don't think we'd need brutal executions to get the point across.

We see death all the time in our movies and in our video games.  It may be faked, but through these mediums we have become desensitized enough that a mere lethal injection will not drive home the point that you are trying to make.