If you ask human rights groups, public executions are a thing of the past in the developed world. If you want to see one, according to the experts at Amnesty International, you’d need to go somewhere truly third-world, like Somalia or North Korea. Otherwise, you won’t come across executions in the middle of the day, right out in the open, because we’re more civilized than that. We might have runaway inflation that rivals the late Roman empire, and state-of-the-art fighter jets that the Pentagon loses like spare change. But at least we don’t lop people’s heads off in the town square because they stole a loaf of bread.
What human rights groups will not tell you, because it’s inconvenient for their preferred political narrative, is that public executions are now more common in the first world than they’ve ever been in history. It’s not even close. In fact, these executions are happening all the time right here in the United States. All that’s changed from a century ago is that the authorities aren’t the ones carrying out these killings, in accordance with any kind of legal standard. Instead, the perpetrators are young criminals, who also happen to be — whether we want to acknowledge it or not — disproportionately male and black.


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