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No argument here. All aspects of the government should be open to public scrutiny.

I'll risk some downvotes by expressing my pet view that if the government is going to use capital punishment - it should be public.

The US is a representative democracy and "we" have delegated the monopolistic use of violence to the government.

If the government is going to capitally punish someone, it ought to be done in full view of the people from whom the power to do so derives.

That is the opposite of a tyranny.

I kept being thrown off by the headline and article saying "cops".

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

I think you would actually find biblical scholarship really interesting. It's way more fascinating than you give it credit for.

You make presumptions to examine arguments.

Presuming this is just incompetence instead of malice, when the missing paragraphs are replaced, will "Constitution of the United States Website has replaced missing sections" hit the front page of HN?

More than that, they needed a professional with vision.

I'm not being snotty. What is the fixed point from which they are measuring the speed? Is the object moving 1M mph relative to earth? The black hole at the center of Milky Way?