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Also, I don't think they televise executions. Actually, beside Ceaușescu, I'm not sure there has ever been a televised execution. Televised executions are primarily a device used in science fiction to highlight that a society is _extremely_ fucked up (they tend to show up in alternate histories involving modern Nazi Germany, say), rather than, er, a real thing. Wtf, America?

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Just for clarity, Ceausescu’s execution was not streamed live. It was recorded and shown on TV the same day, but when it was shown the announcer read the dry statement that they (Ceausescu and wife) were tried, found guilty, sentenced to death, and the execution carried out, and then the footage was shown. Just like that. Very out of the blue.

I remember seeing hanging of Saddam Hussein on TV in America.

IIRC it was a "leaked" video after the event, not a live coverage.

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