Your reader wrote, "If the people of Utah could see the executions, and they were horrified, they would demand change, and executions would stop."

I have heard this argument before, but there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that people witnessing an execution would be horrified. Executions in the past were public. And was the effect to cause a horror of capital punishment? No, it became an opportunity for a picnic lunch to let the kids watch. People who advance this public-execution argument have no sense of history. Consider the rowdy crowds that would cheer as they watched people being hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn, or the gleeful cheering at executions by guillotine during the French Revolution. Public executions would attract people who enjoy watching executions. Period.

Another writes:

I completely support your reader who advocates for the televising of executions. I often wonder how many who support capital punishment in our country have actually witnessed justice being served in their name this way. The public hanging of Stephen G. Simmons so shocked the thousands of citizens in Detroit who gathered to watch in 1830 that it led to the State of Michigan becoming the first English-speaking government in the world to abolish the death penalty. In 1846!

Bring executions back in the public sphere. Let's also get a window on some "advanced interrogation techniques" while we're at it. I suspect after a few botched attempts (and there are still botched attempts, regardless the method) we might have a different approach on how we manage criminals in our care. Even the most evil ones.

NPR did a piece on the last public execution in the US, carried out in 1936. Another writes:

I was outside the Utah State Capitol Thursday night and into the early morning with our group, Utahns for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, protesting the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner.