Shemtob And Lat's Executions Should Be Televised

In “Executions Should Be Televised” Zachary Shemtob and David Lat claim that “a functioning democracy demands accountability and transparency. As long as executions remain behind closed doors, those are impossible” (paragraph 4). Their argument infers that in allowing executions to go unrecorded, the public never knows what really occurs behind closed doors, rather than the brief story the press releases of the execution in the next day. Therefore, Shemtob and Lot take two different approaches to supporting their claims towards the accountability and transparency that the government has not provided to the public.