If you ask human rights groups, public executions are a thing of the past in the developed world. If you want to see one, according to the experts at Amnesty International, you’d need to go somewhere truly third-world, like Somalia or North Korea. Otherwise, you won’t come across executions in the middle of the day, right out in the open, because we’re more civilized than that. We might have runaway inflation that rivals the late Roman empire, and state-of-the-art fighter jets that the Pentagon loses like spare change. But at least we don’t lop people’s heads off in the town square because t …