Cheerleaders and Mock Executions

There has been some controversy about this skit by the Nacogdoches High School cheerleading squad were they do a mock execution of the opposing team:






And there even more controversy because an article in the schools newspaper critical of the skit was edited by the school principal.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5996974

Now, like the video says I don't think the cheerleaders meant this in any real mean spirited way but I'd think that someone might have thought "You know this might not be a good idea" before they did this.