And the research is easy to find.
Executions traumatise the execution team, other prison staff, and official witnesses.
Countries that permit public executions have enabled research into the impact on children and young people who watch them. Three months later, 52% in one study still struggled with at least one PTSD symptom.
Live-streaming makes it permanent. It will always be out there, somewhere, doing what it does, being used in the way death-on-camera content is used.
Kate Bowles
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