This is a theoretical question. Should Saddam Hussein hang?.?

Question

The reason I ask this is because if he is hanged in January, he will become a martyer and a martyer cannot be killed. However if you imprison him and deny him martyrdom, he becomes a powerful focus for mailitia's that were and still are loyal to him and other factions who's agenda's are at odds with one another. If Saddam manages to escape prison, he will be hunted down and arrested and the whole cycle begins again., so which is the greater evil or greater good.

Answer 1

Saddam Hussein, should not hang! The court proceedings were a farce from a purely legal perspective. The United States government disregarded most international rules of law concerning Soveranty of Iraq and entered that country under complete disregard of the warcrimes act. The entire basis of this ghestopo action was based on known lies, falsehoods, and deliberate misinformation tactics by our US government and Agencys there of. I have no love for Mr. Hussein, But I can tell you this, if it were George Bush on trial for his part in manufacturing of evidence and deliberately lieing to all the people of the world, He and his minions would claim that the world court has no jurisdiction, and not for legal reasons, but because he makes up the rules as he goes. The weapons of mass destruction that Condemed Hussein to hang were provided to him by agents of the good old USA years ago when he was our buddy. The nerve gas that was used to handle a rebelious northern sector of Iraq, came thru or from our country. If you do your research I beleive you will come to this sad but same conclusion. The deceptive practices of our Federal Agencies has lacked any oversight by any courts in this country, under the guise of national security. The desire of our leaders to make a money grab or oil grab has brought shame to all of us.
I believe this to be the truth, I love my country, I love The constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence that the finest country on this earth has held as the very basis of our Democracy, But I loathe when special interests decide to interprut these documents to suite there own selve-serving motives. It was wrong at the beginning of this war, and it is still wrong today. It has been the concensus of many independent, non partisan investigations that this is a no brainer.

Answer 2

I believe that Capital Punishment is wrong in all circumstances and that, therefore, even an evil murdering tyrant like Saddam should not be executed. In addition there are some special points which further reinforce the view that it would be utterly wrong to hang the man:

(1)As you say he may become a martyr and a focus for further attacks by Sunnis on the ruling Shiites – a civil war is underway and this would fuel the fire.

(2) The trial was generally seen as being badly conducted and a parody of proper legal practises.

(3)What Iraq needs now or soon is reconciliation. A revenge motivated judicial murder will have the opposite effect. Iraq should take its lead from South Africa and have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission not revenge executions.

(4)Saddam’s crimes were appalling, especially when judged by Western standards. But how appropriate is it for America to drive a process of judgement against them? Saddam has largely been tried by recently returned expatriate Shiite Iraqis who are hardly unbiased observers.

For a Christian perspective we are asked to forgive our enemies. As Martin Luther King said “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” No one, even Saddam, is beyond redemption.

Answer 3

I'm against the Death Penalty, so I think that he shouldn't be hung.

Also, he does become a Martyr, and therefore the various different groups that still support him will try to use that for their own gain.

Plus, if he's kept alive, there should be some other form of punishment found, one that'll maybe make him realise there's no hope for him. That's a lot better than killing him.

Answer 4

At the moment my answer is: don't know.

The REAL question is: did he receive a fair trial? If the answer to that is YES, then it is up to the court to impose whatever punishment the court deems fit.
If the answer is NO, then (in my view) there should be a retrial, probably at the international court at The Hague. The question is then under whose law the trial should be conducted. If it is Iraqi law, then so be it, but even then, there would then probably be a better likelihood of a fair trial, given that the civil situation in Iraq is sadly not back to normal yet.

Answer 5

Does not matter he will be martyred anyway and another idiot will take his place.
Which is greater, evil or good look at the world today is good prevailing or evil how many other countries are doing what Saddam is doing.

Let no dictator off the hook hunt them down and when another steps in then cut him down to.

Answer 6

That's a really tough question.

He's been tried and judged by his own, so their decision should be respected.

But, there's the martyr issue and the fact that technically he did not have a fair trial. Yeah he's guilty as hell, but it was not a fair trial.

I have to come down with no death sentence - he should get life imprisonment.

Answer 7

Its a no win situation.

Hang him - He becomes a martyr.

Don't hang him - People will be campaigning for his freedom till the day he dies.

I, personally, was totally surprised that they caught him alive. I thought that they would of killed him on sight, partly to avoid this whole situation.

Answer 8

everyone seems to assume he will be hanged by the neck etc, a better end for him would be to hang by the balls until his scrotum streches enough to allow his head to touch the ground, then turn him up the other way and make a permanent job of it. I'll offer to do the job..........

Answer 9

Given the cutting-edge months activities and the "inner" Iraqi approach/conflict among they selves, I say; that before you positioned any execution date; Saddam could be enable "unfastened" upon those cowards whom are killing each and every others women, the old, the harmless, and their toddlers. human beings like those in basic terms comprehend one factor; and that's Saddam. All this romanticism approximately given them their "freedom" on the fee of the lives of our youthful men and females in the service and ; !!!which "freedom" they have used to "kill and ambush" US and coalition forces ought to be finished away with. Edit: I edited the 0.33 line from the backside, so all the bleeding hearts right here grants me some greater, or ; all the "thumbs down" they could like. fact all hurts ; does not it?

Answer 10

No. i am totally against the killing people thing. and besides what is he going to learn from dying...nothing...what might he learn from being in prision...a lesson. so which is better you ask...let him live out his life in jail, he will not be the only one with a lesson, other people will too.

but we also need to work on our prisions,
our criminals are living a better life then our soldiers and there is something wrong with that