I don&#x27;t agree with capital punishment at all, for a number of reasons that I won&#x27;t get into here, but I can at least see a reasonable case being made for it.  But <i>public hanging</i>?  In what way could that possibly be good for society?  If regular capital punishment doesn&#x27;t work as a deterrent, I can&#x27;t imagine that making it public would do much better.<p>Although after seeing public hangings the will for capital punishment in general would probably drop sharply, so maybe that would be a benefit.  Seriously though, the idea of public hangings is barbaric.<p>I don&#x27;t disagree with you as far as not locking people up for things like drug use though.