Public Executions During The Colonial Era

The fact that colonial Americans held public executions to employ moral lessons to public intrigued me. Until now, I assumed that public executions during the colonial period were held only to entertain people. It is still disturbing to me, however, that colonial Americans tried to promote an execution to their own use. Such discriminations seemed to be common at that period of time.
Despite their good intentions, it appears that the public attended to enjoy an "Entertaining DEATH." This concept is very bizarre and even frightening to today's common sense. One's death should not be ridiculed by any circumstances even if the one's crime is horribly brutal. Every human right should be respected, as the Constitution tells us.

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