Do you think Sadam Husein should be hung in public? Should it be televised here in the USA?

Question

Should it be televised anywhere?

I really like the responses you all have sent. Lets keep them coming for another day and I will choose a best answer. Wish I could pick more than one!!

Answer 1

I think capital punishment in his case is just, but I personally wouldn't want to see it, and I don't see a point to catering to people's blood lust. I believe in justice, not revenge.

Answer 2

No it shouldnt be televised. It can spark religious violence. It should be treated as how an inmate in a US Prison recieved a death penalty execution (out of media coverage). If its been televised then Sadam Hussein will be a Hero rather then a person who created outrage atrocitie while in power.

Answer 3

First I believe two wrongs don't make a right. I doubt that putting him to death is the punishment he should suffer for the wrong that he has done. When I learned it was death by hanging I was pretty disgusted. To put someone to death, to hang them. Have we progressed at all as a society. To do it public...is a disgrace to ourselves. I'm reminded of the times when people gathered in coliseums to look on as some poor soul fought til the death as entertainment. When I was little I loved the moving Running Man...but only because I knew that it was only a movie and not real life...but if we were to televise the hanging, it would seem only a hop skip and jump to making that movie a reality.

"Eye for an eye and we both lose our sight."

Answer 4

No. Hanging is too good, and Quick. He should be put back in the Hole that He was found Hiding in, with no Food, Water, or Light, and be allowed to slowly Die. At the end of 1 Month, His Body should be removed, and Cremated. Then, Flush His Ashes down a Toilet !

Answer 5

Yes to all three. However, things being what they are there is little chance of the US allowing it to be shown (bad for the kiddies and all that). And FCC regulations being what they are there isn't a way around that (we can see FAKE executions but not real ones, and the fake ones are usually more graphic).

Of course within a few minutes of it being aired anywhere, it will be all over the web and anyone that wants to see it will be able to...maybe for free...maybe not...but it willl be there...which pretty much makes the efforts to NOT show it irrelivant.

Although they MIGHT do it as a pary per view sort of thing...that would pretty much get around the FCC altogether...which is ALWAYS a good thing.

Answer 6

I'm sorry, you are correct. You did ask the question, but didn't answer mine. I'll answer yours. No, I don't think it should be televised. I believe that freedom of the press has gone too far. I believe that some things should be left unsaid, unspoken and unseen. How about you?

Answer 7

No.

1) It's completely inappropriate to show an actual death on TV or in other media.
2) It's wrong to glorify execution, no matter how deserved.
3) Public execution panders to the lowest dregs of society.

Answer 8

the area replaced into Camp Justice in Kazimain, in the north of Baghdad. Saddam replaced into surpassed through the US over to Iraqi authority. They then had complete administration over Saddam. He replaced into performed through Iraqi voters/persons - no US persons or squaddies have been bodily in the development on the time of the execution. Please double-verify your "information" mate ;)

Answer 9

just let the peaceful people finish off it former leader by the peaceful way of the peaceful religion.

i don't want to see it on tv, because i am not going to enjoy see people getting kill as the peaceful people do.

Answer 10

NO, and no. The execution should not be made into a public spectacle. Its unseemly, to begin with, and would be a propaganda tool for the enemies of the US and Iran.