[zizzer]

There's a strange sense of morality in being able to execute someone but not show their full last words due to swearing. The US media seems to view the world in a similar way.

[steauengeglase]

It isn't the morality. It is the fear that we'll turn them into martyrs.

[jaredmcateer]

I don't think profanity and vitriol is really going to win hearts and minds... well spoken ones such as Napoleon Beazly[1] however are more likely to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822629

[pfortuny]

Hm, for some people they are martirs and for people denying the right of the State to the death penalty, they are martirs because they bear witness to the futility of the act.

Regardless of what they say.

[mikeash]

Are you saying that the profanity is censored because it's feared that the man would become a martyr? That makes no sense at all.