Basic Trope Description: A convicted character is executed in public, for everyone to see.
- Straight: Bob is hanged in public.
- Exaggerated: Bob is poisoned, hanged, drowned and stoned all at the same time, and his execution is not just public, but also broadcasted everywhere on the radio, on all available TV channels and all over the internet.
- Downplayed:
- Bob is hanged in the prison's garden, visible for passersbys.
- Bob is maimed in public as a punishment.
- Justified:
- Bob committed a crime that carries the death penalty.
- Emperor Evulz wants to make an example of Bob.
- Inverted:
- Bob is resurrected in public as a punishment.
- Bob is executed absolutely alone.
- Subverted: Bob is to be executed in public, but his True Companions arrive to save him.
- Double Subverted: He is killed in the ensuing firefight.
- Enforced: Truth in Television
- Averted: Bob is only sentenced to imprisonment.
- Zigzagged: Some executions shown in the show are in public, others not - depending on the crime.
- Parodied: Emperor Evulz makes big proclamations how he will kill Bob in a gruesome manner, only to feed him fruit cake.
- Lampshaded: "Tomorrow someone will be hanged in the marketplace. Will you go and watch too?"
- Discussed: "Poor Bob. He may have been a scoundrel, but this last insult?" "We will keep him in good memory."
- Conversed: "The death penalty is bad enough, but in public? That adds insult to injury."
