What do you think of Saddam hanging? Too brutal? isn't it?

Question

Why not let him die in prison?
or shoot him?
it's painful and inhuman to hang him

Answer 1

Saddam is hanged, because he created that law which makes convicts to be hanged in that way. Because the court was in Iraq, an Iraqi law must apply to his execution.

By the way... There are more presidents LIVING today who killed more than Saddam did. Why don't anybody hang them or even bring them "to face the justice they denied their people", like Bush said. SADDAM was defending his country from what it fell today, destruction, chaos, sectarian war, and poverty. Saddam may have killed 100's, because they were a co-conspirators who were collaborating with the people that wanted Iraq to be what it is today, so THEY DESERVED to be killed. (although collateral damage happened). We do collateral damage too. SADDAM was doing JUST WHAT EVERYONE DOES, defending his country. Period.

Answer 2

Well, Americans and Chinese usually put people to sleep these days. Hanging is kind of an outdated form of execution.

Shooting is no better though.

I guess the same thing happened to Mussolini. He was hung by communists.

The only thing I'm afraid of is most martyrs die publicly. If he rotted in prison, he wouldn't be a martyr. Noriega wasn't hung.

This is historically significant, I think it's the first time America has approved the execution of a head of state. I wonder if Robespierre would have approved.

Answer 3

I thought just let him live in prison for two thousand years or so.

I just don't understand how governments have the right to murder people. It really is murder.

If they had left Saddam in prison, he would never hurt anyone again. Killing him OBVIOUSLY doesn't teach him a lesson, since he's gone now. OK, off the subject of Saddam: most people will promote life rather than death. Life is good, death is depressed, sad, not good, whatever.. so they should've made him live in prison and given him professional counselling for years and years and years, it's apparent that he had some sort of mental trauma to kill so many people.

He didn't deserve to die. No one ever deserves to die.

Answer 4

Saddam's hanging is a sprinkling of rose petals on a dew-soaked green lawn of springtime compared to what he did of others.

He cannot be allowed to die in prison because too many others will see his life in prison as a call-to-arms for a return of him to power. Those people will kill more people than would otherwise die. Saddam's immediate execution saves the lives of untold thousands who would die from continued intense violence.

Violence will continue and many people will saddly be killed this year, but many fewer will be killed this year than would otherwise die if he were alive in prison.

Answer 5

I agree, waste of time and money, it also gave him a voice he didn't deserve.

We on the one hand are trying to show the wider world we can rise above his barbarism and give him a fair trial then go and waste it all by brutally hanging the man.

I reckon a bullet when they found him would have been fine the same as his sons. How could they make a martyr out of him then crawling about a rat hole.

Answer 6

NO!! This hanging is very tame compared to all the atrocities he inflicted on thousands of his own people or perhaps you have forgotten about how this man was a brutal dictator.

Answer 7

We are a bloodthirsty nation here in the US. Saddam certainly deserved to die but many on YA said they wanted to watch. Guess that is why crime shows on TV are so popular in that people here don't mind murder but wow don't show a nude body.

Answer 8

As far as the pain goes- it was minimal compared to the ppl he killed. Hanging,cutting fingers off etc... are the ways of his country.

If in the USA would have been prison or lethal injection ( also DEATH)

We as a country(USA) have NO RIGHT to tell other countries how to punish THEIR GUILTY!

Answer 9

1. It's his people who did everything not America.
2. Death by hanging, I believe, is the most widely used way worldwide, people just felt sorry this time because they got to actually see it. This happens everyday, and in many places, and sometimes to innocent people, I believe this is what's worth our attention.

Answer 10

I think it was brutal,but awesome at same time! If you are that evil you should b hung just as that man was.But i think a perfectly placed bullet wood work too.