OPINION:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated live-streaming the Dec. 3 execution of the Fort Hood shooter before the president ruled it out.
Was the plan about justice, deterrence or the midterms? Tim Constantine and David Bozell weigh the politics, the risk of inspiring more violence, and why they say official witnesses are enough.
I’m as conservative as it can be, but I happen to think all life, even that of the most evil human beings, has to be respected, has to be treated with dignity. So I realize I’m off from some of the folks who are gung-ho for the death penalty. But the idea that we would do that publicly, who does that? Iran. They do it in football stadiums, but Iran does it to scare the hell out of people. And they’re not a country well known for the dignity of life.
The United States has traditionally been a leader in the world, not only militarily, not only economically, but in consciousness, in what was right and wrong, what is morally correct. And I don’t mean simply a culture. I mean the basic good and evil of human beings. And I feel like if we lower down and live-stream the death of a human being, to satisfy the bloodlust of people that are angry, rightfully so, at a horrific act this guy did, but to satisfy that bloodlust, then we’re no better than North Korea and China and Iran.
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