The Execution Factor

[Benwah0597]

The Execution Factor: It was designed as propaganda to deter would-be criminals. Instead interviews on death row have become China's new TV hit

The glamorous Ms Ding conducts face-to-face interviews with the prisoners, who have often committed especially gruesome crimes. Her subjects sit in handcuffs and leg chains, guarded by warders. She warms up with anodyne questions about favourite films or music, but then hectors the prisoners about the violent details of their crimes and eventually wrings apologies out of them.

She promises to relay final messages to family members, who are usually not allowed to visit them on death row. The cameras keep rolling as the condemned say a farewell message and are led away to be killed by firing squad or lethal injection.

The case that has drawn the largest number of viewers so far is that of Bao Rongting, an openly gay man who was condemned to death for murdering his mother and then violating her dead body.

[corpsehands]

pay per views next big hit? i think so

[Benwah0597]

We are one step away from Death Race - yeah baby!!!

[kellyhound]

so they film the execution too or only the led away ?

[SLeUTh]

If US found out they could make even more money by killing the scum live I bet people would be executed faster then ever.

[BryanXavier]

I saw this yesterday. Thanks for posting. Weird shit.

[Dynamo47]

I am all for Pay Per View specials for executions with the money going to the victims and their families.

All too often only the murderer is profiled and the victims forgotton.

I would have the show showing the lives of the people killed. Show then in photos and let people get a sense of knowing them. Then show the crime scenes and the overwhelming evidence including DNA against the perp. Finally follow the perp for their last meal and execution.

I would imagine certain murderer's execution would come close to Super Bowl viewing numbers.

[Oswald2001]

So...kinda like Chinese Idol.

[ices]

Pay per view gladiator battles.

Rome had them, but with lions. It pleased the plebs and boosted the coffers so I dont see a problem.

[diamondsmiles]

Originally Posted by Dynamo47

I am all for Pay Per View specials for executions with the money going to the victims and their families.

All too often only the murderer is profiled and the victims forgotton.

I would have the show showing the lives of the people killed. Show then in photos and let people get a sense of knowing them. Then show the crime scenes and the overwhelming evidence including DNA against the perp. Finally follow the perp for their last meal and execution.

I would imagine certain murderer's execution would come close to Super Bowl viewing numbers.

Some shows are doing that now. HBO once had a victim's mother meet her daughter's killer, at the mother's request. I cannot recall the victim's name. I believe it was his excuse, which we have heard often, "he was angry and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time". I also believe he was using drugs. The woman wasn't reckless or putting herself in danger.

I like the prison inmate interview shows and, "Parole Board". I find them interesting, in addition to the real crime and medical shows. No CSI bull! The only one from that series I do like is SVU.

There is a new prison interview show premiering in our area Friday, but, I can't recall on which network.

I think George Carlin came up with that idea several years ago. The 24 Hour Execution Network! Hell, I'd watch that, but, I don't watch the Super Bowl!

Actually, dynamo, they did follow Karla Faye Tucker to her execution, in TX, of course, and I'm almost positive a man was followed. I'll have to research that one, but, I seem to remember a dark haired 40-ish male on Death Row being followed until his final day.

Aileen Wournos did alot of extensive interviews up to her death, but, I don't think they talked with any of her victims, to my knowledge.