“I wanted to say it's so wrong, but believe me, it would catch on. People would watch.” Nidal Hasan's livestreamed execution is "disgusting" for its appeal to the worst of humanity, where no one will be able to publicly scrutinise individuals for partaking in it, says The Times's columnist Libby Purves. Libby Purves and Seb Payne were speaking to Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio. Listen live every Monday-Thursday from 10am-1pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/