View Full Version : Saddam Hussein's Execution, Was it Right?
boro_boy
10-01-2007, 17:47
I had watched the video of his execution and it looked like a simple execution that lead to an instant death for the former dictator. But the way in which the "invited" audience taunted him before he was hanged was out of order and disgusting to say the least.
We all know he was a horrible dictator and deserved to be punished, but they could have shown the man some respect for the last few minuted of his life. I am not in favour of the death penalty as taking a life for a life does not appeal to me as being fair. I would rather they locked him up for life, let him die in the prison.
I suppose they choose to execute him simply to try and stop the in-fighting within Iraq as once he was dead, the people who wanted him back in power and who were fighting for this to happen, would realise this was not going to happen, and they would stop the fighting.
But i think the way he was taunted was out of order, it doesn't matter what he has done, he should have been given some respect before the trap door opened!!
Discuss...
I think the people taunting him were childish and out of order, but the video actually showed saddam, whatever you think about him, dying with dignity and instead shows up his victims
superally
10-01-2007, 19:53
But i think the way he was taunted was out of order, it doesn't matter what he has done, he should have been given some respect before the trap door opened!!
Discuss...
WHAT RESPECT DID HE SHOW TO THE 1000S OF INNOCENTS HES MURDERED THROUGHOUT HIS YEARS OF POWER??
Meh, all I care about is the fact that they have finally killed him.
All I can say is... Whats the point asking that now, he's dead. Why can't people leave it at that? But I agree with superally aswell
Marketemi
10-01-2007, 22:11
Saddam is executed because kiiling thousands of northern iraqi people and he was very dishonourable.IS this the real reason?this massecare was in1989.and the start of "american democrasy" in iraq nearly a million people kiiled most of them was civilian.Should we punish bush?Everyday we see 50, 80 or 100 of iraqi dead.We are begining to see them only numbers not human being it is too sad
FourOneFourOne
10-01-2007, 22:46
Nowhere near 1 million people have been killed in this war (although I don't agree the war should have happened either).
He brought his death to himself tbh, however there are theories that go into how he helped the country but along with that came all the gruesome shite.
Saddam is executed because kiiling thousands of northern iraqi people and he was very dishonourable.
Yes but as the execution was as good as sponsored by America, a western country, then whoever is being punished should be punished in a humane and professional way, ie if they are given the death penalty it should be done as quickly as possible (which it was), as painlessly as possible (ditto) and without humiliation (which it wasn't).
Still, saying that the manner of the execution doesn't make up for killing thousands of innocent people in Iraq.
Lennon Saviour of E
12-01-2007, 13:27
I don't understand all these worries over the niceties of the hanging.
It wouldn't have bothered me if they'd have given him a fucking good kicking before stringing him up.
2 wrongs don't make a right in politics, but in reality I agree with you
boro_boy
12-01-2007, 13:34
I don't understand all these worries over the niceties of the hanging.
It wouldn't have bothered me if they'd have given him a fucking good kicking before stringing him up.
That's no way to treat a human know matter what they have done. 2 wrongs don't make a right at the end of the day.
Lennon Saviour of E
12-01-2007, 13:39
That's no way to treat a human know matter what they have done. 2 wrongs don't make a right at the end of the day.
It doesn't make it a big fucking deal either. There are far more awful things going on in the world as we speak.
I don't give a shit about Saddam, he didn't give a shit about those he tortured. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will no doubt think he got away lightly.
But the executors were chosen from people who had suffered as a result of his regime. If someone has killed a member of your family, or tortured you then your not going to think 'oh two wrongs don't make a right'. Your not going to be thinking rationally and why should you. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it
Hanging in this day and age is truly barbaric.
Not sure it's barbaric, but people should be locked up for life instead of being killed because it's the 'easy option' most of the time. That way though it costs the state more I guess...
notts ref
12-01-2007, 14:26
Hanging in this day and age is truly barbaric.
Have to say I agree with you there. Well a) its wrong! and b) it seems a bit old fashioned. For an audience to come to the galleous (sp?) and watch a criminal being hung. I'm not behind the Death penalty for certain. One thing I am against, which could be a little off topic, is LIFE sentence, should mean a LIFE sentence. But thats completely different!
Im my eyes, I think Saddam hussein will become a 'Hero' among so Iraqi people. They see it that Hussein has 'won' this long battle. Easy way out by just killing him.
yes...lock him up and he will slowly rot away, kill him and he gets the easy way out plus becomes a martyr (btw there wasn't an actual "audience", unless you count the security guards who filmed it:nodyes: ).
notts ref
12-01-2007, 15:09
Well there a good enough audience for me lol.
the way he was taunted was wrong for sure.
It's not like all the citizens packed into the gallows to watch like what happens in some other countries though. There needed to be security guards...
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