Having seen two executions at close quarters, I can advise you quite strongly not to watch the planned shooting in Texas of the mass killer Nidal Hasan by a live-streamed firing squad.
The former US Army major killed 13 people and wounded 32 others, and has admitted it, so I am not really worried about whether it is right to execute him. It’s the public element of it that I dislike.
I am pretty leathery and hard-boiled after half a century in the cruel trade of journalism, so you should listen to me. Watching an execution will change you.
You will be older,
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