hi! there's lots of room for more information here, but you may be interested in these earlier related posts, which focus particularly on your question about public attitudes

• Why did we used to be so fine with such brutal and public executions?

• During medieval times public torture and execution was commonplace, how did this effect the general population, did they become desensitized to gruesome death?

• What is this wheel on a pole with corpse that I see occasionally in medieval/renaissance art?

• How were executioners viewed by society in late medieval and early modern Europe?