美国国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯已授权通过直播方式进行枪决处决（报道，10月9日）。从道德角度看，这与恐怖组织发布斩首视频毫无区别。这标志着在美国社会残酷化进程中又向前迈进了一步，这一进程发生在特朗普政府的第二个任期内。英国于1868年停止了公开处决。约翰·博勒尔 卡尔恩，威尔特郡
Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, has authorised the livestreaming of an execution by firing squad ( Report, 9 October ). Morally this is no different from a terrorist group posting a video of a beheading. It marks yet another step in the brutalising of American society under the second Trump administration. Britain stopped holding public executions in 1868. John Boaler Calne, Wiltshire