AUDIENCE ATTITUDE TOWARDS TELEVISION COVERAGE OF PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

The menaces of robbery have become a game of the fittest in our society today, that when robbers carryout and operation they boast of it and give names to themselves. This attracts the attention of the people and all government to find a lasting solution to this dilemma. This gives rise to the method of public execution of robbers in the state of Nigeria the robbers are publicly executed, the younger one still intends to join in this game and business and this makes it impossible for the method of government in eradicating robbery a reality. The educated elites in the society says that the public execution is not helping matters while the less educated enjoyed it much and prefers it in television than radio and newspaper. However, the research aims in carrying out this work is to know the audience / people feeling towards public execution in Enugu state and how the government and the media have participated in helping matters.