I'd like to kick all of those 'the nation needs to heal' people right in the fucking crotch. Those fuckers should be hanged publicly right outside the capital and left to rot there. Let's see who fucks around again after that.
The six thousand captured slaves were crucified along the Via Appia by Crassus' orders. At his command, their bodies were not taken down afterwards, but remained rotting along Rome's principal route to the south. This was intended as an abject lesson to anyone who might think of rebelling against Rome in the future, particularly of slave insurrections against their owners and masters, the Roman citizens.