Instead of punishment this sounds like a system so that we can make convicted felons as comfortable as possible so they don't mind return visits. Mcviegh however has decided even this isn't good enough for him. He asked to stop all appeals of his death sentence and even decided to not ask the president for clemency. He got his wish. In the grand tradition of getting an inch and then trying to take a mile, Mcveigh would now like to televise his execution.
Closed circuit viewing of executions is nothing new.
It has been done before when there were too many people intimately involved with the case than could be seated in the viewing areas of prison death chambers. More than 250 victims and relatives of victims would like to see Mcveigh die with their own eyes. Mcveigh however expressed his willingness to have his execution broadcast publicly. I am completely in favor of public executions. In the past it was done to satisfy the public giving them a sense of closure, justice and as a deterrent to other murders.