Why don't we ever see televised executions?

Too many human rights groups. They would never allow it. I for one would have enjoyed watching the execution of Saddam. I believe that if the U.S. would have made the Saddam execution a Pay Per View event, it would have raked in more than enough money to pay for the rebuilding fo Iraq.

Allowing the public to view executions, or later on, to allow the publication of photographs of the executed were once common--at least in the USA. It used to be quite the rage, don't you know!

For the most part nowadays such things are decided upon by the public morality judges-- at least in the USA-- whether to let the public see the corpse of a celebrity (or anyone) who was killed or executed. Times have changed. Can you imagine what it would be like had newspapers continued to publish, and perhaps later TV to broadcast, images of people's corpses in order to 'prove' they were dead? Would you like to see such photographs included in the obiturary section of your local newspaper?

It's a moral issue!

"What we have here is... failure to communicate! "

(Cool Hand Luke)

Also, you might want to read:

http://www.answers.com/topic/media-ethics

Hope this helps!

Because most Americans would vote to end the death penalty if they actually saw a person murdered by the government. The first time one is televised would be the end of government murder. By keeping it off TV, and private, government sanitizes killing prisoners.

Anyone that has been a part of an execution will not ever want to do it again (if they have any sanity to them.)

You forgot to ask. Was he really murdered? We will never know what they did. Will we?

Please... after CBS was sued for half a second of a naked breast during the Super Bowl, you think the Networks would show an execution on a continuous loop? Not even Bill Gates could afford the FCC fine that would follow.

Besides, that why god created PPV. (Or Allah created Al Jazeera.)

1st. they dont show televised executions beacause some children accutally watch the news with their parents. And its "not good" for children to watch that.

2nd you can search the internet on your own time to watch a longer clip of him getting executed

Because too many people think its too violent, etc, etc......But hell, the government could have made a mint with Pay Per View....$49.95 a pop to watch him hang........So many people out there with that morbid curiosity........

well the united states channel did not allow us to see the exucution because they thought it was to violent for yuong viewers and people in households. some parts they had to edit !!

Actually, those closest to the case would have more reason to watch and bear wittiness I did not need to see this.