2006-12-30 22:55:59 · 21 answers · asked by Saracen 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Actually there was no hood placed around his neck. He opted for a hoodless execution, and that is what he received
2006-12-30 23:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
normally that black cloth is a hood going over the entire head. Saddam did not want the hood over his head. The hood protects the witnesses from seeing too gross sight of the neck being stretched and broken as well as facial distortion. Saddam did not want to wear the hood, so the hangman just hid his neck from view.
If the hangman measures the rope length wrong - Saddam could have been decapitated or on to short of a rope his neck would not have broken and he would be conscious threw the gagging process until he died.
2006-12-30 23:06:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The black cloth kept the rope from biting in so deep that his head would come off. That happens sometimes when a person is hung.
I doubt it had anything to do with any concerns for his family, and it certainly WASN'T a hood. Saddam chose a hoodless execution.
Anyways, good question. The black cloth kept his head from popping off during the hanging. That's all it was for.
2006-12-30 23:11:47 · answer #3 · answered by kvalley_94061 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Near as I understand they always put a cloth around the neck for hanging because of humanitarianism reasons. Relatives don't want to have to view a loved ones body that has big skin burns from the rope on the neck.
2006-12-30 22:58:26 · answer #4 · answered by monkey 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fox news reported that the black cloth was placed around saddams neck to keep the rope from breaking the skin.
2006-12-30 22:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by brackattack_81 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iraq has the highest hanging standards in the civilised world, and for centuries the black neck cloth has been required by law.
Saddam's hanging was no exception. His cloth was made of a fine bled of Turkish cashmere wool with Chinese silk, to ensure proper gripping of the Iraqi Democratic, state-approved government rope, which was hand-picked by none other than that other jokester himself, Dick Cheney.
Yes, Dick Cheney just can't resist getting involved with other people's hanging business, that is, when he's not busy praising Ford for pardoning the criminal Nixon, or shooting his friends in the face while drunk off his skeeters.
The black cloth is bless by the Pope and the Islamic Imans prior to the hanging, so it's a combination Death/Holy cloth, which is often re-used for weddings and infant baptisms, and circumcisions. If you would like to rent Saddam's black cloth, write to Dick Cheney at Halliburton-Kellogg Defense Contactors, 200 Pennsylvania Ave. Wash. DC.
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2006-12-30 23:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Marc Miami 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Black Cloth has always been put on people when they are hung it's been like this for Centuries even in the Salem Witch Hangings they did the same thing
2006-12-30 23:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by sugarbdp1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They said it was to help so that the rope doesn't snap his head off. The force of a jerk on the neck could cause the head to come off completely but also to prevent massive looking burns on his neck which seemed to have happened anyway.
2006-12-30 23:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A witness to the incident instructed a reporter that when Saddam refused to placed on the hood on his head then between the executors in simple terms placed the hood-textile around his neck and wrapped the rope over it.
2016-10-28 19:31:04 · answer #9 · answered by bason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cloth was to prevent ligature marks being too prominent on the body, as noted above. More for the relatives than anything else.
However he did not wear a hood, he was offered and refused one.
2006-12-30 23:02:43 · answer #10 · answered by David N 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To cover up what happens to a person's face when he is hanged. Head swells up. Eyes bulge out. Face turns red. Sometimes the tongue swells and sticks out. It is a gruesome sight.
2006-12-30 22:59:25 · answer #11 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋