Saddam Hussein sentance to death

[mrhnau]

Well, the first trial of Saddam has finished, ending in a guilty verdict and a sentance of death. Looks like its automatically going to be retried. This is going to stretch out for years it looks like...

The Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced a combative Saddam Hussein and two other defendants to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.

Thoughts? Opinions?

 

[SFC JeffJ]

Couldn't happen to a better guy!

 

[KenpoTex]

Thoughts? Opinions?

Best news I've heard in a long time...May the S.O.B. rot in hell!

 

[Hand Sword]

Good Riddens!

Usamaaaaaa? Where are youuuuuu? Are you watching? Hopefully, you're next!

 

[bydand]

Wonder if they are going to take volenteers to pull the trap lever?

Me! Me!, Pick me I want to do it!!

Rotten begger, couldn't think of a more deserving guy.

 

[Kacey]

Hanging is too quick... other than that, I agree.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Hanging isn't that quick. If your neck doesn't snap, you choke to death...can take a while.

I'm sure he got a fair trial though.

 

[Ping898]

Is this really a surprise to anyone....

 

[terryl965]

It was gonna happen and we all knew this so why did we waste all that money on a trail

 

[Hollywood1340]

IMO this may turn him into a matyr, much better put him at hard labor for the rest of his natural life, THEN have him rot him hell. Death for him is too easy, make him suffer a bit.

 

[bydand]

It was gonna happen and we all knew this so why did we waste all that money on a trail

No doubt. But then nobody can come back later and claim that this poor mis-understood individual who had a tramatic childhood just needed a hug to make him all better.

Let the neck stretching begin!

 

[michaeledward]

I'm sure he got a fair trial though.

Why?

 

[Andy Moynihan]

The mere fact that given the political situation, and the fact our troops were in an absolutely perfect position to save everyone the time and cost of a trial with a more-or-less foregone conclusion, and just waste him on contact when they found him, but did not, and that apparently when taken into custody he did have his omnipresent Browning Hi-Power on his person,(could have chosen to go out fighting but for whatever reason did not), the mere fact he got a trial at *all* is, I think, more than testament enough to that.

 

[BrandiJo]

hang him high and in public

 

[Grenadier]

Hanging isn't that quick. If your neck doesn't snap, you choke to death...can take a while.

I'm sure he got a fair trial though.

Depends on where the knot is placed.

If the knot is placed on the back of the neck, then the hangee (is that a word?) will generally choke to death, which as you stated earlier, does take a while.

If the knot is on the side of the neck, the vast majority of times, the neck simply snaps.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Why?

Because.

 

[michaeledward]

Because.

It would seem to me, that with death threats against the prosecutors, with death threats against the judges, with actual kidnappings and executions among those participating in the trial, and their families, as well as changing trial officials throughout the trail, that there are many reasons to believe that justice was not blind.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110301779.html

It's fair to say that really the tribunal failed to meet key fair-trial standards in its conduct of this Dujail trial," {Richard} Dicker {of Human Rights Watch} said by telephone from New York. The failures, he said, will "put into serious question the legitimacy of the verdict."

Here's another article that raises the question ... from a year ago.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1019/p01s02-woiq.html

 

[KenpoTex]

...the mere fact he got a trial at *all* is, I think, more than testament enough to that.

I agree, AFAIC, the soldier that found him should have just dropped a grenade into the hole and kept on walking.

 

[Arizona Angel]

He is going to die, and he knows it. Bet he knows where he is going after death too. I do feel sorry for the guy in that aspect all by itself.

 

[Fu_Bag]

I thought I remember hearing that the ones who helped him out of his hole were very polite. It seems like his legs were a little wobbly but they kept helping him up everytime he tripped and fell. Good to hear. Poor guy. His legs were really wobbly from being in that hole so long...........