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Capital punishment seemed to have been regenerated from the beginning of mankind, where beheading was considered an honorable method of meeting death, whereas hanging carried with it a definite stigma. The era of public hanging was emotionally satisfying even though the surroundings was emotionally tense. In contrast to private hangings where they were fewer observers, less theatrical from the accuse and hanging was becoming more of an inhuman punishment to inflict on those found guilty …

…individual being hanged. The accuse no longer had to be gawked at or have to observe the behavior of the public, which ran from raucous railing againts the cruelty towards the condemned, to pious sympathy, to observers just having a gay time. No mater what justification may be presented, killing of an individual guilty or innocent, because of it’s finality is a uniquely destructive act, whether the killer is an executioner or a murderer.