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  Nah, it's not okay. We need to be better as a society. Hell, the whole fucking thing follows around an innocent man put to death.
  Lotta y'all need to find some empathy.
context: In this movie in particular I think it is less about feeling bad for the dude and more about hating Percy, the one not getting the sponge wet. >
  
  I mean... from a legal standpoint it's a cruel and unusual punishment and was done purposefully. Morally it's not the greatest to not care but .. I mean, I am not crying either. >
  
  I feel sympathy for him suffering like that, the whole point of the set up is to show that there's a difference between an ethical execution that serves justice and has to by carried out under the burden of duty and murder that satisfies a sadist's wish to see someone suffer. >
  
  Did you ever consider it has less to do with them thinking he didn’t deserve it and more to do with people not enjoying watching someone suffer so terribly? >
  
  Percy was a vile character, and Hutchison, who played him, is a creepy-ass dude, marrying a 16 y/o when he was 51. >
  
  Bad joke >
  
  His punishment was to die, so making sure you torture him and then die is fucked up >
  
  Exactly. Maybe he deserved it, but the whole point is, as a society, we are supposed to be better than that