The bit I saw was about the parents of a murdered boy whose murderer was being featured as one of the prisoners on death row in the campaign Looking Death in the Face . I can understand the parents horror at seeing the man who violently and cruelly sodomised and then killed their 17 year old son being made famous, and seemingly normal, in a campaign which was suggesting the death sentence was wrong. I could well understand it if they wanted to torture the man for fifty years and then tear him to pieces. I suspect that a lot of the driving force behind the public reaction was founded in people s own fears, anger, resentment, hatred and revenge. If you look a little further than the end of your own nose a few revealing facts become apparent.
Someone gets mad at the nasty person who commits such an awful crime on such a sweet innocent.
Well, they think that nasty person should be captured, judged, sentenced and then punished and even killed. Whew - that sorts that out and brings equilibrium back to our world. But what of the person watching this. Hmm, they might think, what a nasty person to be premeditatively and cold bloodedly attacking, humiliating, torturing and then murdering another human being. What a nasty piece of work.