Sadly, there's a large block of people who would view the exectuion of criminals as a form of entertainment, so I think I'd prefer not to see that on youtube or anywhere else.
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this before I added executions...and hesitated adding that to my post....but after some though did....think the majority of people would see how inhumane(shows how we're just sad pathetic animals) it truely is...and maybe it would stop. the reaction on this board and other outlets to Sadams execution was good example.
I thought his hanging was brutal and regardless of how brutal he may had been, to me it doesn't mean others have to stoop to that brutality. It makes them then same.
Then to allow witnesses in to taunt him, which even a guard did, was more like a lynching than justice.
It was wrong by all things I believe in.
The whole thing bothers me, and I am as liberal as they come, and yet, there is some part of me that remembers he is responsible for thousands of deaths, in much worse circumstances. I mean he shot people right in front of others in government offices. I don't have a link to articles, but I have read it and could probably find it. He presided over terrible deaths, with no mercy. So, liberal though I am, now that he is dead I don't feel sorry for him. It was a clear case of 'live by the sword, die by the sword'. Or karma, or whatever you want to call it. The way you treat others may well come back on you.
I did not watch the hanging, and won't.
R.i.p. Rigoberto Alpizar.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
The whole thing bothers me, and I am as liberal as they come, and yet, there is some part of me that remembers he is responsible for thousands of deaths, in much worse circumstances. I mean he shot people right in front of others in government offices. I don't have a link to articles, but I have read it and could probably find it. He presided over terrible deaths, with no mercy. So, liberal though I am, now that he is dead I don't feel sorry for him. It was a clear case of 'live by the sword, die by the sword'. Or karma, or whatever you want to call it. The way you treat others may well come back on you.
I did not watch the hanging, and won't.
I'm against the death penalty and I guess you could say I'm pretty liberal. I don't feel sorry for him now that he is dead and I didn't feel sorry for him when they were about to kill him. But I think it was wrong to execute him.
i think it's good that so many people in the uk are criticising the hanging. i thought that wouldn't be the case.
Why? The death penalty is abolished in the UK and therefore in the UK they would be more prone to criticize an execution. Also, the UK support the International War Crimes tribunals so perhaps they would have rather seen Saddam in one of those courts.
Anyway, the death penalty is an easy way out (as someone said, a bit like suicide). If one doesn't believe in hell or whatever punishment a religion dishes out after death.. does it really matter to the person dying? The way Saddam lived his life, I wouldn't have thought him too worried about the consequences of his actions and the impact on afterlife.
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The whole thing bothers me, and I am as liberal as they come, and yet, there is some part of me that remembers he is responsible for thousands of deaths, in much worse circumstances. I mean he shot people right in front of others in government offices. I don't have a link to articles, but I have read it and could probably find it. He presided over terrible deaths, with no mercy. So, liberal though I am, now that he is dead I don't feel sorry for him. It was a clear case of 'live by the sword, die by the sword'. Or karma, or whatever you want to call it. The way you treat others may well come back on you.
I did not watch the hanging, and won't.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
I'm against the death penalty and I guess you could say I'm pretty liberal. I don't feel sorry for him now that he is dead and I didn't feel sorry for him when they were about to kill him. But I think it was wrong to execute him.
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Why? The death penalty is abolished in the UK and therefore in the UK they would be more prone to criticize an execution. Also, the UK support the International War Crimes tribunals so perhaps they would have rather seen Saddam in one of those courts.
Anyway, the death penalty is an easy way out (as someone said, a bit like suicide). If one doesn't believe in hell or whatever punishment a religion dishes out after death.. does it really matter to the person dying? The way Saddam lived his life, I wouldn't have thought him too worried about the consequences of his actions and the impact on afterlife.