Livestreamed executions radicalize audiences

State‑sanctioned public broadcasts of executions transform a criminal sentence into a political spectacle that can validate violent actors, encourage copycat attacks, and amplify extremist recruitment. When senior officials publicly promote such spectacles, they change media incentives and lower social barriers to political violence. — If governments begin to stage and broadcast punitive spectacles, it will reshape norms around state violence, media responsibility, and domestic radicalization risk.