Should Saddam Hussein be hung as prescribed by the court where Saddam Hussein was tried?

Question

Saddam Appeals Iraqi Death Sentence
By Ahmed Rasheed
Reuters
BAGHDAD (Dec. 3) - Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some rights experts as unfair and fundamentally flawed.

Saddam was sentenced to hang a month ago for crimes against humanity over the killings of 148 Shi'ites from the town of Dujail after he escaped assassination there in 1982.

U.N. human rights experts also identified "serious procedural shortcomings" and called on Iraq not to carry out the death sentences. They also said Saddam was not given enough time to prepare his defense and had restricted access to his lawyers.

Answer 1

Yes he should be hung. That is too good a punishment for him.

Answer 2

Everyone has the right of appeal. Hopefully it won't take too long. It's not really surprising that there were procedural errors in a system which is brand new to Iraqi courts.
I don't think hanging him will solve any of Iraq's current problems.

Answer 3

First of all, I don't believe in capital punishment under any circumstances. Second of all, how bizarre is it that the U.S. is responsible for killing thousands upon thousands of Iraqi people, but they want to kill Saddam Hussein for killing 148 people? Who is going to be hung for all the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people that have been killed by Americans? Should Bush by hung? Even though I don't like his politics, I would no sooner have him hung even though the atrocities against the Iraqi people for which he is responsible far outweigh those of which Saddam Hussein is accused.

So the short answer from my point of view is "No - absolutely he should not be murdered".

Answer 4

no