Poll: Two-thirds support the idea of televised executions

NEW YORK (AP) — Three in 10 American polled last month said that Osama bin Laden should be the first victim if executions were televised — and 21 percent said they’d pay for the privilege.

Eighteen percent said Saddam Hussein should be executed on TV, and 11 percent said they’d pay to watch it.

The opinions on executions came in a poll taken by Harris Interactive for the Trio cable channel.

One-third of the respondents told Harris that they didn’t believe executions should be televised.

Harris Interactive interviewed 1,017 Americans aged 18 or older at random Jan. 24-26. The margin of error for the sample is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.